Growing Stitches: scrappy black bottom line shop etsy diamond flower

Sunday, February 17, 2013

It's a Breeze....

Seams to be done {sorry had to add in some humor there,it was too easy!}

Finding a space big enough to pin a quilt can be a daunting task at times:/ It also took me a long time to figure out how I wanted to quilt this bad boy! Tons of Flickr,magazine hunting and imagination time spent trying to nail down a design I could live with in the end. Finally I decided to do a diamond pattern to make the colors inside the grey and red diagonal lines stand out loudly. For each of the clustered groups of fours, I did a flower design. Overall, I am very pleased with the geometry of the diamonds and the flowers give this quilt a distinctive contrast to the straight lines with some extra charm. My trusty hera marker got a workout with this quilt. Helped me immensely.

Here is a flower close up. I used Bottom Line in silver and it lived up to its name I do believe. Blends in as Superior promises and I had no problems with my tension set at 3.

Kona black for the binding. I wanted to make a nice framework for all the bright and dark colors in this quilt. Black was my first choice to do the job just right.

Yellow flower print that has been sitting in my stash for some time now and some leftover grey from the top. Very fulfilling to use up scraps or yardage that you need to find the right quilt for at times! Easy piecing for this back too which makes for less trouble too;)

So intricate looking to me,but the secret of course is that it is a trick of the eye because the piecing was a pleasure and a breeze!! Bonnie Hunter is wonderful to have come up with this quilt pattern.