You have seen snippets over the past year…
But now, you see it in its entirety! My French Bouquet mini quilt is officially published in one of House of White Birches newest book, “Jump-start Your Quilting” (edited by Jeanne Stauffer).
This 16″ x 16″ mini wholecloth/applique combo wallhanging was designed with a home machine quilter in mind. A 16″ square is just about the perfect size for someone who wants to do a bit of practicing on fancy quilting using their home machine.
The fabrics are mainly from RJR‘s Fancy Hill Farm collection, except for the beige background that’s from Robert Kaufman‘s Radiance cotton/silk line.
Quilting was done with YLI Silk 100 (Color 239) over Hobbs Wool Batt because I wanted to highlight the feather quilting in the center of my floral wreath.
If desired, you can also quilt or embroider a monogram in the center instead of doing the feather quilting. The feather quilting motif is my original design adapted from an antique Persian floral cluster. It is printed in the book for quilters to use on their quilts.
Here are a couple of close-ups:
Click here to find out how I popped my applique:
I love it anytime I get to do dense quilting – therefore making French Bouquet a most enjoyable project! I hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I had enjoyed quilting it.
From time to time, I am asked about the stitches I use for my applique. Come back tomorrow for a tell-all! Meanwhile, I wish you a beautiful day!
What a perfect little practice project. that motif would be so easy to stretch too and you would instantly have a beautiful table runner.
Now that I have drooled all over my laptop… this is amazing and so are you. I love love love it. Even though it is small I could never get the stitches so beautiful as you do. Bravo. Bunny
Absolutely beautiful Wendy!! I am so glad to hear you are going to tell us more about the applique stitches – that was going to be one of my questions…what stitch number and what size :)…and what foot ♥
Wendy…It is gorgeous! Beautiful doesn’t even describe it! You are in a Class of your own! What a gift and blessing you have~
Gorgeous!!! Of course, I’m in love with applique and wholecloth quilting which is what this one is a good combination of.
Wendy, I love it! The applique, the design, the quilting, … I could keep going! I guess you really like the silk thread, don’t you? :)
When I tried to click on the link to see how you popped the applique, a blank page came up.
Wow Love every little inch of it all wonderful such talent fabulous
What a fabulous little quilt! The book sounds intriguing. I’m going to keep my eye out for it.
I can’t even find the words to describe how fabulous this quilt is. The quilting is just amazing.
Wow!!! This wall hanging is exqusite. Thank you for sharing these pictures. I’ve been gazing at these pictures for over 10 minutes!!!! Stunning! Thanks again, Didi
So stunning, beautiful work.
Congratulations on the publication Wendy. The piece is stunning with that gorgeous quilting, I’ve enjoyed the sneak peeks and now we get to see it in it’s entirety.
Congratulations on the publication. A new MUST-HAVE book. Can’t wait to get it. Your quilting is awesome.
How cool to be published in a book! And it’s a very pretty little project.
Fabulous quilt Wendy. Very, very beautiful!
This is truly stunning, Wendy – I thought that background fabric had silk in it! Really gorgeous!
Beautiful! The quilting is fantastic.
This quilt is gorgeous and really showcases your talent. That dense quilting is unbelievable! I like how the YLI thread fairly glows. Wendy, this is yet another “done good” quilt to add to your very long list. Excellent!
swoon
Yes, it’s quite lovely, and gorgeous. I always enjoy beautiful free motion… congrats!
Awesome!! This year I am planning to donate some small quilts to our guild’s silent auction to raise funds for charities…and this would be awesome. Not to mention give me tons of practice on FMQ!
Thanks so much for sharing your ideas and talent!
Linda,
What a great cause!!!
Wendy
What a beautiful quilt and such an honor to get published. Good job. Your free motion is fantastic and I am still intimidated by doing free motion. You inspire me.
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Wendy! That is a Magic what you always do with your sewing machine. Your free motion quilting is adorable. You are my Hero(ine)!
Gyorgyi,
Thanks for the kind words! That was a super fun project…. and like I said, perfect size for quilting using the home machine.
Wendy
I could look at your quilt photos all day! The quilts are always beautiful but your thread work just takes them over the top!
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