I found a pattern for a sweet applique quilt that I really wanted to do. It seemed like a lot of work, but what the heck, it was work I loved to do.
This quilt is machine pieced and hand appliqued. Here are closeups of the center detail. All the applique pieces are outline quilted and veins are quilted in the leaves. In the background, I quilted a simple grid.
I quilted a straight line through the center of the pieced blocks and a small heart swag in the longer side pieces. In the plain squares, I quilted a feather wreath, my favorite quilt design.
In the inner blue triangles, I quilted a feather swag and in the outer blue borders, I quilted a meandering feather vine.
On the inner applique border, I outline quilted around the flowers and then quilted straight lines about 1″ apart in the background.
This is a Black Mountain Quilts pattern from a book called Buttermilk Farm. Here’s a copy of the book and the pattern page.
This quilt won a red ribbon and Best Hand Quilting ribbon at the 2007 Lake Norman Quilters show.
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