Sugar Buzz – 2004

I found a beautiful line of fabrics in pinks and greens, my favorite color combination, and looked for a pattern to showcase them.  I decided on the cake plate block.  I set the blocks on point and alternated them with solid blocks of the pink and green floral print.  This is a queen size quilt.

There are three borders on this quilt, a solid green inner border, a pink tone on tone border, and then a wider border of the green floral.  I decided to put the wide outer border on the sides and bottom only.

This quilt is hand quilted.  I outline quilted and did a leaf design in the cake plate blocks.  In the triangles framing the quilt center, I quilted a spider web design.

I quilted a tulip and heart design in the center of each green and pink floral square which is difficult to see.  Here’s a picture of the design on the quilt back  where you can see the it a little better.  This is a good example of why it’s best to do your intricate quilting on plainer fabric if you want all your hard work to show.  The tulip is also quilted in the center of each cake plate.

On the dark green outer border, I quilted a simple curve, and on the pink outer border I quilted a Greek key design.  On the wide green and pink outer border, I quilted a wavy design about 2″ apart.

Sugar Buzz won a Best Hand Quilting ribbon and a second place ribbon in its category at the 2004 Mooresville Centerpiece Quilters Guild show.  Here I am with Sugar Buzz at the show.