Good day, my bloggy friends! I hope you have had a good week. Mine was busy, and a bit dis-jointed due to a few unplanned happenings sprinkled throughout the week. I was able to finish and ship off my Cascade of Leaves quilt. The quilt will be featured in the October issue of Quilter’s World:
You remember these yummy fabrics I received a few weeks ago. They are from the Silk Road collection by Benartex:
I have enjoyed working with these fabrics in the Cascade of Leaves quilt. You can see some of the leaves here:
I wanted this quilt to have an overall textured look. So, I first machine-embroidered feather motifs onto the quilt at various random spots:
Then, I filled in with more feathers (done free-hand using my home machine without any prior marking) to give the overall textured look. The only thing is that the background feathers seem to have buried the embroidered feathers. Although I am pleased with the result, I didn’t know if I should have done something different for the background quilting:
Here are more pictures with different lighting:
Here are a couple of pictures of the back:
Thanks for stopping by this week. I have appreciated every one of your comment(s). I am running behind in getting back with you by visiting you back. But I hope to get caught up by this weekend. Take care!
Love the shadow effect. And you know, even with all the beautiful quilting, it does not take away from the quilt itself. It looks fabulous.
I love the overall effect. It’s almost like a wonderful find of an older damask tablecloth or something along those lines — fabulously textured with lots of areas to discover when looking at it!
Fabulous!
Love the shadow effect too! Of course the quilting is superb. Love it – Hugs Natima
absolutly beautiful! You do such wonderful work! I just love everything you show us.
I love it when the back looks as good as the front. Very nice Wendy!
I just love the shadow effect — it adds a whole new dimension. Gorgeous!
Well, I think it’s incredibly beautiful – I love the effect of the quilting, and the fabric is amazing. I love the leaves. I’ll look for the magazine in October!
Wendy, it is beautiful. Those leaves truly do look like they are floating. Nice job.
Nice Quilting very good!!!
I’m still very amazed with your free-hand feather-ing technique! HOW DID YOU DO IT?
this is just so beautiful!! I’m amazed … (did i just say that earlier?)
I’m hanging up my sewing machine right now. This, is, gorgeous! Over the top, I’m so impressed-gorgeous!
Shaking my head because, I will never be that cool and creative!
Oh My Gosh!!! this is beautiful-gorgeous-fabulous!!! You quilting is amazing.
I am in love with everything about this quilt. At first glance I thought you had real leaves resting on the quilt because of the shadows. What a cool effect! I could look at this quilt for hours. Beautiful work, as always.
*jaw hanging open* Now that’s just stunning.
Wow- that’s amazing. I’ve been busting my rear trying to do a decent feather, and I think I’m just not going to get there. I just love your work.
Your Quilt is nothing short of spectacular. Quilting really does make the quilt. Could you tell where we might find the machine embroidery feather motifs you used ? You are an inspiration to us all! Thanks for sharing.
that is amazing! I absolutely love it. Love the light blue & orange contrast, and I love the embroidery and quilting. I think the embroidery does pop in the right light, a subtle and perfect effect. Great job!
What a gorgeous quilt and you did a wonderful job on the quilting.
Micki
One word: Divine!
Gorgeous! It’s hard to not be able to really show & tell isn’t it:-)
Wow, your quilting is incredible. It is just gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
Beautiful quilting!
Wow. Stunning. I bow down to your superior skills..I’m always in such awe of your work. I guess I just need to move to Arkansas so I can take some of your classes!
What a sensational quilt! That quilting is so gorgeous.
wow. The quilt and the quilting look amazing! Great work!
This is beautiful! I am in awe of your quilting skills!
this is amazing…i can not even imagine what it would look like fully…beautiful
Stunning!!
Really beautiful shadow effect on the leaves and the quilting is amazing.
I love the fabrics and the quilting is beautiful!
Wow! No words.
Blessings,
KT
The shadow effect is just stunning!
Thanks for visiting my blog! I love your work and follow your blog regularly :) This quilt is phantastic,I’ve also tried this kind of shadowed applique and the result is amazingly real!
Hi Wendy,
I just thought I would answer your email here, but first I must tell you that I think the quilt is so beautiful. Once again I love the leaves and the quilting is beyond belief.
Now to your question, the center basket chart is from “Australian Country Threads”, vol. 2 no. 12. The border designs are from a Christmas stocking that I made for my daughter found in “Christmas Stockings in Cross-stitch” by Kooler Design studio ©1992. I had to chart the one that goes around a corner to make the turn. I’m now working on the top portion (not shown on blog yet), where I have added another border from Christmas stocking book as well as an alphabet from “Cross Stitch and Country Crafts” Mar/Apr 88.
Once again, lovely, lovely quilt!
Jill
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