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- Total submissions: 28
- Total countries: 7
- Total provinces: 1
- Total states: 13
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Bear Hollow By: Diane U., Ontario, Canada Bear Hollow was completed in 2012 – my first queen size quilt – several techniques learned through a BOM club taught by my friend, mentor Kaaren at our local quilt shop in Simcoe Ontario Quilt size: width: 90" height: 120" |
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Bluebird Posy Baskets By: Lea Brummett, Indiana, USA I started designing this last year to used as a table topper for my dining room table. But now it’s large enough for a tablecloth. I lost interest in it and as we quilters do it became a UFO until about 3 weeks ago. I’m hoping to get it quilted within the next couple of weeks. Quilt size: width: 76" height: 76" |
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Broken Dishes Quilt By: Karin, Australia An ‘Oldie but a Goodie’; this quilt was one of the first bigger quilts that I made. It is used daily, has been through the washing machine several times and still looks great. The 8in blocks are made entirely out of scraps. The designer of this quilt is Jane Morgan (Stunning Patchwork No 1, 2007) Quilt size: width: 51.5" height: 75.5" |
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Charmed Hearts By: Lavonna ZWB, Oregon, USA This quilt was pieced together in 2002 using charm squares that I had exchanged with others. It is completely hand quilted with thousands of hearts throughout the design. It is my favorite of all the quilts I have made as I love scrap quilts and making beautiful things out of very little pieces. Quilt size: width: 67" height: 92" |
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Civil War Fabrics Miniature By: Nancy Mott, Pennsylvania, USA I had scraps of civil war reproduction fabrics that I used to make this miniature quilt in “The Lady of the Lake” pattern. Quilt size: width: 11.5" height: 12.0" |
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Daisies By: Lies, Netherlands I wanted to make a quilt for my mother, who loved the garden and the spring. She died in 2000, before all daisies were finished. A few years later I made a quilt of these blocks, to keep us warm. Quilt size: width: 66" height: 45" |
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Growth By: art2wear, Netherlands I found a tutorial about making value quiltson the internet. Quilt size: width: 55" height: 45" |
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guarda-labores By: maria jose gomez ruiz, Spain Small quilt, ideal to guard small labors or embroideries, and enrrollar making it cylindrical; realized with precious fabrics Quilt size: width: 25" height: 15" |
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Halvsies Quilt By: Becky, Utah, USA Used half square triangles from a swap and added a bit of wool applique baskets and flowers. Quilt size: width: 25" height: 25" |
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Homage to Kate Spade By: Ellen Wigginton, Michigan, USA I have long been a fan of the polka dots, stripes, shots of color and overall cheer conveyed by designer Kate Spade in her clothing, shoes, purse and accessories lines. I’ve planned to put together a quilt that shares her aesthetic and finally made it happen. I believe this one captures it perfectly Quilt size: width: 56" height: 46" |
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Kaleidoscope in blue and white By: Julie Fukuda, Japan Made for an auction to raise money for the American School in Japan, this quilt was made with the help of some school mothers. After the blocks were assembled, it lived at my house between sessions while I quilted the blocks and re-quilted the problem areas in the border. Quilt size: width: 92" height: 92" |
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Little Sister’s Kite Tails By: For Quilts Sake, Ohio, USA This quilt has blue and purple batik triangles sewn down in the middles with their edges are left loose to curl up or bend in. It is wrapped around a wood frame with variegated yarn at the edges. Quilt size: width: 12" height: 12" |
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Majestic Gardens meets Quilt of Valor By: Becky in KCMO, Missouri, USA This was made as part of Quiltmaker’s Scrap Squad. The design is Monique Dillard’s and we made quilts to demonstrate how this design could be used for many different looks. There are 17 triangles in every 8″ block. I will be donating mine to Quilt of Valor after Quiltmaker is finished with it. Quilt size: width: 72" height: 72" |
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Oh Happy Day By: Oh Happy day, Connecticut, USA Oh Happy Day was made for a friend who came out of the hospital. It was made to cheer her up. Quilt size: width: 64" height: 82" |
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Over The Rainbow I By: Barbara @ Nähtante Quilts, Germany machine pieced and machine quilted Quilt size: width: 105" height: 105" |
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Random Break By: Frances Contadino, Ohio, USA This is the back for Tranquil Waters. I had lots of scrapes left from my geese and just started putting together half square triangles. I called it Random Break because once blocks went together it seemed like some of them just broke away and created new triangles. Quilt size: width: 49" height: 49" |
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Sam’s Grandaddy Shirts Quilt By: Tammy Pettus, Alabama, USA This quilt is made entirely of 2″ half square triangles (except for the white border). It’s made from my daddy’s shirts. He passed away in November of 2010. This quilt was made for my nephew Sam. All nine of the grandkids will receive a quilt made from their Grandaddy’s Shirts. (3 more to go!) Quilt size: width: 42" height: 52" |
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Sampler Quilt By: Sally Manke, Fiber Artist, Michigan, USA Sampler queen bed quilt in rustic colors is designed from twelve different triangle sampler blocks. Blocks are set on point then joined with off white on ecru and rich brown triangular blocks. Two borders in rich red and brown accent the colors. Quilt size: width: 75" height: 86" |
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Scrappy Niners – With A Little Help From My Friends By: Kaaren Biggs, Ontario, Canada I received 81 blocks in a guild exchange and used every one of them in this quilt – a wonderful reminder of special friends. Quilt size: width: 90" height: 103" |
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Scrappy North Wind By: Cathy, Michigan, USA This quilt was made while living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I made it during a very cold and snowy winter. I thought the name matched not only the quilt but the time of year. I love Scrappy quilts. Quilt size: width: 50" height: 60" |
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Seaport Harbor By: Sandy Deem, West Virginia, USA I made Seaport Harbor for my DD#2 guest room, our SIL collects lighthouses. I used as many reds, blues and whites that I could find for the quilt. It’s a happy quilt and makes everyone smile. It’s quilted with water and all kinds of sea shells. Quilt size: width: 96" height: 110" |
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Shattered Rainbow By: Shape Moth, Germany Rainbow HST quilt inspired by Andy Gilmore’s art, made using charm packs of Kona cotton. That was my first finished quilt which I quilted on my home sewing machine. Quilt size: width: 45" height: 45" |
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She’s Truly Lost Her Marbles! By: Carol Ann Johnston, Idaho, USA The title of this queen quilt, She’s Truly Lost Her Marbles, comes from the first thing my sister said when she saw what I was working on! I tried out a new template set and decided to go for the smallest piece in the set, a triangle. The small triangles make up the ‘flower’ blocks, which are then s Quilt size: width: 83" height: 90" |
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Triangles By: Debra Reinert, Pennsylvania, USA This quilt was assembled from HST collected from an exchange. It comtains squares collected from 8 countries including 35 of the (US) states. I assembled and quilted it. Quilt size: width: 32" height: 32" |
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Strawberry Stars By: Michelle Marr, Oregon, USA I was playing around with different block designs. The green stars against a red background made me think of strawberries, so I dug through my stash and pulled out a bunch of red and green scraps and made myself a quilt — and wrote down the pattern in case anyone else wanted to make one, too. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 32" |
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Through The Looking Glass By: Cynthia Zoller, New Hampshire, USA This colorful quilt top is being made for my son Josiah and his lovely wife Elisa. One fabric which reminded me of Alice in Wonderland was the inspiration for all the different colors and prints in the quilt. Quilt size: width: 45" height: 45" |
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Triangle Massacre (100% scraps) By: Kelli F., California, USA This quilt is made entirely of leftover scraps, and is named Triangle Massacre b/c during its making I think I killed every perfect point. ;) It contains approx. 600 triangles. It was a pattern my husband picked out.. he loves it and cares nothing about perfect points. :) Quilt size: width: 50" height: 65" |
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Wilson Canyon Thistle Rose variation By: Judy MacLeod, Ontario, Canada My interpretation of Robert Callahan’s Wilson Canyon Thistle Rose pattern. The whole thing was put together from my stash and scraps. No fabric was purchased for this quilt. Hand quilted and my first attempt at putting a scrappy quilt together. Quilt size: width: 95" height: 95" |
I tend to use blues or related colors when quilting–red or gold on holiday designs.
I use whites for piecing but for quilting I like to use variegated they blend well, the specific colors change with each quilt. If I had to pick the color I use most it would be a tie between blue and green!
I have never tried your threads but sure would like to. I do sewing everyday and sure could use something new.
I use a variety of colors as I like to make bright quilts.
Thanks
I find i use mostly blues. From pale blue to a deep purple blue.
For the actual quilting, I use a lot of variegated lime green thread — it’s amazing how many things look good with lime green! For piecing I generally use a pale grey.
I use cream or beige most of the time.
What thread colour? Boring natural cream color I would have to say :(
Perhaps if I win, my color palette will enlarge :)
Happy Quilting everyone!!
I use a medium ecru for most piecing unless I’m working on lots of very dark colors, then I use a dark grey. Thanks so much for a chance to win some of these beautiful Aurifil threads, my friends have raved about it and I have wanted to try it for a very long time.
Usually gray or black for Dark colors and tan and beige for light. I also like all variegated colors. . So I guess you could say I love them all
Right now I’m using a lot of ecru. Thanks for the giveaway!
I use mostly light grey for piecing – and lately have been loving Aurifil variegated in all sorts of combinations for my quilting.
I use light gray or cream color thread for most piecing. I like my quilting lines to pop so the color depends on the quilt. The Aurifil kits in your giveaway look yummy!
I mostly use solid ecru or pastel variegateds. For Christmas quilts I use red/green/gold variegated.
Lately it’s been cream! I used up 2 spools this year already! They were started last year, but are now empty.
I use light or dark grey for piecing and variegated mostly for quilting.
Thanks for the chance to win and all the quilts are so lovely it was very hard to choose this week.
I am SO impressed by all the quilts this week! I mean to make a scrappy quilt one day soon. I treasure the double wedding ring pieced by my maternal grandmother from scraps left over from making feed sack dresses for my 2 aunts.
I use Cream, Grey and Black thread for all my piecing. I love this thread!
Great quilts! Glad I could choose a few faves. :-)
Thread colour? Depends on the project……but I adore using Aurifil thread….no matter what the colour, solid or variegated…..it is the BEST.
Rather boringly, I use grey thread for both piecing and quilting most of the time. Am going to try making mini art quilts soon and hope to use lots of colors!
Such a variety this time! I found something to like about them all.
I most use an off white I do alot of piecing and had to change thread so the off white works for me.
I mostly use white. How boring! Mind you, right now I’m using some lovely variegated Aurifil on a quilt, and it’s so pretty that I keep adding quilting. And, I’m quilting this by hand, and I still can’t get enough of this beautiful colour.
I use an off-white or light tan when I want a neutral. Otherwise, I like variegated threads. I have used a lot of orange and purple, too. Well, I guess it depends on the project. All colors are beautiful!
Taupe, taupe and more taupe – with a little gray once in a while!!
All of the quilts are awesome. It’s always so difficult to chose. I generally piece with taupe or gray and like to use variegated for quilting.
I do more piecework than quilting but when I do quilt it’s usually old traditional white, off white, beige. Since I am looking at some art quilt ideas to try I could use some colors.
Sew the pieces always use cotton yarn fabric color one, for padding in this case with maroon embroidery thread
Just about the only color I use for piecing is Aurifil #2605, which is a nice, neutral grey. I go through spools of it!
Love Love Love all of these scrappy happy quilts
I make colorful quilts, so I use red, yellow, pink, green, blue….or any color to match the fabric!
I just used some Aurifil thread recently and it sews like a dream. These quilts are all beautiful!
I like using all sorts of colors when quilting – piecing it depends – cream for lights, gray for darks.
Beautiful quilts!
I love multicolored tread.
I use the white Aurifil in the orange spool or Coats in white or off white to piece with. I have just used some perle for handstitching. Those are some yummy Aurifil sets you have there!!
I usually use white the most. thanks for the chance!
I try to match threads if I can. If I don’t have a certain colour, I tend to use a light grey.
for hand & machine quilting I mainly use a light tan thread for multicoloured scrappy quilts, for quilts containing a dominant colour I will match the thread to the main colour
I don’t have a common quilting color. I tend to try and use a matching color…it means I get to buy more thread!
I use a grey or cream for piecing. When doing the quilting, I try to match my thread to the fabrics, so I tend to change colors quite a bit as I do each block!
I use white thread the most when making the quilt but when I start embroidering the quilt I would say that various shades of pink are my most common color.
I’ve never had the pleasure of using Aurifil threads but would love to try them.
White…lol…I am so boring…Piecing I always use whit. So that is where i use the most thread at. conn_and_vans_mom(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love blue and green fabrics so I think I use these colored threads the most. :)
I try to chose color co-ordinated thread to in some spaces belend in with the fabric and in other areas to make my design stand out, variegated threads are my favorite, thank you for an opportunity to replenish my thread should I be a lucky winner….
I mostly use grey for piecing, so that is the color that gets used the most around here. Of course I use all colors in my applique and quilting so they all eventually get used somewhat.
I love pinks, so most of my quilting is done with pink thread. Also used blues and purples. Love aurifil threads.
I tend to use white/ecru/grey for piecing but for quilting I love using varieagated and metallic threads as well as the full spectrum of colour—–sometimes to match background and sometimes as a contrast.
I love pink,so most of my quilts are done in pink, but some with blue and purple. Love aurifil threads.
I love blue thread when I quilt. Thanks for the giveaway.
Mostly light grey – ecru. But I also like to use a colour that goes with the fabrics; either a shade of one fabric or one “opposite” color to really stand out. It all depends on the fabric colors as well as the pattern.
I would be thrilled to try different color threads. The few quilts I have done have all been done with white. Thanks very much.