Blue Medallion

Back on Track!

I have been watching this cool blue medallion quilt take shape for several months, as Janet J has been meticulously working on it at our Saturday meetings. She considered each stage carefully, auditioning the various fabrics, repositioning pieces and allowing us all to stick an oar in with our opinions and advice. The end result is this striking, perfectly balanced, original design.

And it looks great - she should be rightly proud!

A medallion layout lends itself much more to custom quilting than an edge to edge design. I was a little anxious about freemotion quilting after my recent difficulties with the Spring Halo Quilt, but 'Auntie' (my long arm machine) was on her best behaviour and it all went smoothly. At least this confirms my suspicion that the double wadding combination was the cause of the problem.

So I happily feathered and curled my way around the outer frames, but thought that the on point centre would look good against a simple cross hatched background.

I used a dense filler on the cream on cream section so that floral patches would stand out more. Then I added some precision curves in the dark blue borders for a crisper effect. And the texture showed up on the back even better than I thought it would once I got it off the frame. 

Good job Janet(s)!!

Happy Quilting Everyone!

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