Friday, July 22, 2011

Stitches in Progress

I'm enjoying stitching around the motifs in Summer Totem in grapefruit. I was inspired by Anna Maria's blog where she showed how she did the same for a pillow. I've always loved quilting around a flower in a print. I sometimes feel like I'm scribbling over someone's artwork when I do free motion all over. Its just a very time consuming process that I only do for myself. In the shop I like to keep it simple or no one's order would ever get done! :) This piece will eventually be a flap for a purse for me. I'm doing the front and back pieces in color coordinated patchwork and fussy cut some of the Summer Totem for the sides. They will all be hand quilted whilst I watch tv with my family. It will be a beautiful purse when its done!

4 comments:

Sara @ Sew Sweetness said...

Oh, so beautiful! I can't wait to see the purse!

Sherry Hicks said...

very pretty! I have to say I stopped by to see if you have done anything with the new Dewberry Heirloom line??? It looks wonderful! and I love your thrift store scores in the post below! Love it! I had been on vacation and miss all my favorite inspirational blogs.
SHerry

Pink Daisys Blog Spot said...

Love it.. I have wanting to try that myself.. Can't wait to see how pretty this turns out.
Mechelle

Julie Fukuda said...

Quilting the printed pattern is something I have done before and am doing now. Looks like you are getting great results.

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