Joan’s Flannel Quilt

This quilt is very sweet. It’s a mostly flannel quilt mixed with some great embroidered blocks. Joan did such a nice job putting it all together. I don’t know if it’s from a pattern but I can pass that along when I find out. 

When someone brings me a top to quilt, I believe that the most important part of my job is deciding what to quilt on their quilt. I have to take into consideration the feel of the piece, the areas where the quilting will actually show up, what parts of the top should be highlighted.  I also have to consider the limitations of the long-arm and of myself. I am definitely better at some motifs than others. It’s a big responsibility.  

I decided this quilt needed some traditional quilting to go with the traditional piecing. I stippled behind the center panel so it would stand out. I also stippled in the lighter sections of the log cabin blocks.  I put feathered cables in the red/blue log cabin areas.  The pieced blocks set on point in the border have a feathered wreathe around the little red center square while the embroidered blocks just have a simple line quilted a quarter inch in from the edge. There are straight lines quilted in the setting triangles and a graduated feather border in that final red/green outermost border. This quilt was a lot of work for me but I really felt like the quilt needed this treatment. I sure hope Joan likes it!