I have to say thank you all so much for all the lovely comments on my last post. I truly feel blessed to have so many friends and fans out there who care about me. Thank you.
Over the past 3 weeks I’ve been a busy girl. Today, I want to share pictures of my first official commissioned quilting job. I nicknamed this one the purple people eater because it was ginormous…98″ x 105″ to be exact. There were 14 rows of 13 blocks, 182 blocks in all.
I knew right away how I wanted to quilt this one which is highly unusual for me. Sometimes I stare at a quilt for days before I know what to do. Lucky for me I had full creative authority on this one. My customer told me to quilt it however I thought it needed to be done.
Here’s a look at half of the quilt. It was just too big for me to get a picture of the whole thing.
Yep. That’s only HALF the quilt. I bounced around each fan with little bumps and then quilted some freehand swirls in the beige areas.
I love the subtle imperfections that freehand quilting produces. The little bumps aren’t 100% uniform but the overall effect is rather lovely. Even the back looks pretty amazing.
I kept the border simple. I used purple thread and created a swirl design throughout the border.
The backing is a beige muslin and my customer provided a polyester batting. I used So Fine beige thread for most of the top and Signature purple thread in the border. I went through 8 bobbins of beige and 1 bobbin of purple thread. Overall, it took me about 10 hours to complete this quilt. I had to break it up into 3 days to give my back a little rest.
I hope you enjoyed seeing the purple people eater as much as I enjoyed quilting it.
See you soon!
You did such a beautiful job! Can’t wait to see what you do with my quilt!
Beautiful quilt!!
This is beautiful! Love your quilting designs!
Wow! Seeing the quilt as a bigger picture it really shows how intricate the quilting is! It turned out beautiful!–Linda G
Gorgeous!
Oh my what a beautiful quilt and you did such a nice job quilting it! Thanks for sharing this with us. 🙂
Lovely quilt and spectacular quilting!
wow LOL this is huge. I love your purple people eater. And your FMQ is fantastic.
Beautiful! Love those fans!
I love how you quilted it… Beautiful!!
Lovely job on this beautiful quilt! Only 10 hours – wow, you were really moving right along!! Way to go 🙂
WOW!!! What beautiful quilting on a beautiful quilt.
Such a beautiful quilt and the hand quilting is perfect.
Beautiful! That’s a HUGE quilt!
It really turned out fantastic. Congrats on a beautiful job.