As soon as I laid the quilt top out to complete my quilt sandwich, I stood back in admiration. Yes, I DO love it! It was well worth unpicking the not-quite-white-enough white triangles, replacing them with a just-right-white! Now I love the whole quilt!
Saturday afternoon I sewed the back of the quilt together, cleared our lounge/sitting room floor and secured the quilt back, face side down. After spreading out the batting (middle layer) of thick cotton I them added the quilt top. I've been busy since hand basting with needle and thread to hold the three layers together, ready for quilting.
I love the mix of white, cherry and flying geese blocks, the bright cheery colours and the balance of shapes in the overall design of this "North by North East" quilt design by Sarah Fielke as found in her book Quilting From The Little Things. I made a couple of minor modifications, bringing the measurements of the quilt top to 88" or 225cm square.
If you wish you can follow the rather slow ongoing story of this quilt here.
Sharing at WIP Wednesday, Sneak Peek Friday.
50 comments:
I agree. It's beautiful!
Very, very beautiful. Love it...
This is absolutely beautiful! You should be so pleased :-)
Sarah xx
Absolutely beautiful!
Ohhh Karen...this is priceless!! It is so beautiful! I can just imagine how it looks through your eyes.
Well done. You are so creative. Can't wait to see it all done :)
It is incredibly beautiful and what a wonderful, fulfilling project!! Thanks for sharing its creation!! Superb!!
It's beautiful! Greetings....
Karen...it is wonderful!!! I like it very much! Good work!
Cinzia
.... This is so beautiful, I like it, the colors, the pattern, everything!!
Karen, your quilt is amazing. I love the beautiful colours.
Great quilt. How you find the time to do all the things you do with such a great but also lovely family goes beyond me but it always looks good. Have a nice time .
It´s gorgeous!!
aww... looks very interesting!
Have a great week!
xoxo, Juliana | PJ’ Happies :) | PJ’ Ecoproject
Such a labor of love. It is very beautiful. :)
Wowza!! That is gorgeous! I've never seen anything like it, either. Very nice. You must be smiling really big. :D
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Pretty. I love the pattern of cherries. Yours.
WOW THAT IS A WORK OF ART!!!
and ...THANK YOU for your nice birthday greeting. Nice to see you are my blog. Come on back anytime.
Congratulations, a fantastic piece of work.
Greetings,
Filip
Incredible. I have done a queen sized quilt in all flying geese and i know how much time it can take to make all of those little blocks. You have done a lovely job and the colors and fabrics are laid out beautifully.
So much time, design, creativity and love go into the making of a quilt. Yours is so bright, light and cheerful.
It is G O R G E O U S Karen!!!!
Amazing! You must be so proud of it.
TRULY a piece of art! You are very talented!
wow. wow, wow, wow. it is gorgeous!!
This is a gorgeous, gorgeous quilt! What a great job you have done with this
woh its gorgeous, definetly a labor of love. Whoever is going to use will feel the love.
Thanks Susan, it's for our bed (my husband and I).
Karen
You have such patience and skill! And what a challenge to turn all those other project leftovers into an entirely different and gorgeous work of art. Hard work and perseverance once again pay off!
OH my.. Your quilt looks amazing. You did such a great job.. Oh how I would love to do a quilt someday. I have been saying that for years.
Hugs~
So pretty! Love the bright colors!
What a beautiful quilt! It's great to have something with so many memories!
WOW!!!!
That would have to be the most beautiful and "happy" quilts I have ever seen! Fabulous!!
Wow! And I thought I kept a lot of scraps! This is truly amazing!
Marvelous quilt, congratulations!
That looks amazing. Nice work.
It is beautiful!! What better than having pieces of memories in quilting.
Wow! That's an impressive number of flying geese. Very pretty.
OH MY HECK! I can't believe how beautiful this quilt is and how many pieces it must have had. Awesome design!
What an absolutely stunning quilt! I love the whole overall look AND the beautiful cherry fabric! I must go back and read the complete story!
Your quilt is absolutely stunning! So bright and beautiful! Lots of hard piecing, I am sure! I am so glad you shared it! How funny, I have just been "sandwiching" one of my own quit tops with batting and backing and getting ready to quilt it too!
Oh my goodness - this is a work of art! So many tiny pieces, the finished quilt will be absolutely stunning.
As a complete aside, I'm not sue why it seems I keep missing your posts - I double-checked that you're in my blog list - maybe it's a time zone thing(?) and I'm not scrolling enough.
It IS beautiful!
That is so impressive! I came to comment on your amazing toadstools but this quit below caught my attention :)
absolutely inspirational ... the quilt, your site, your work!
Linda
It's beautiful...I can totally tell why you love it!
Nice to see you at Sneak Peek today! God bless.
breathtaking! I usually don't work with light and bright, but I do enjoy seeing what others do with them!
WOW! This is absolutely stunning!!! You did a fantastic job. I am in awe...
it's quite striking, and i love how you love, that you have pieces of fabrics from other projects, especially the outfit never worn! Sometimes... making something like that is worth it the effort, as you remember it for the time in your life it was!
Karen....it's amazing. Ohh so beautiful...you have so much patience :)
It's one is great! Oh so much work!! That must feel good to have it finished!
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