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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" |
Tough choices again this week. I usually use an ivory or a light grey for piecing and let the quilt dictate the colour for the quilting (done by a long-armer).
I love aurifil pale gray for quilting – it goes with everything!
I usually use some from of tan or natural color for piecing.
I use a color to match the quilt. For piecing I use grey or beige.
Tend to use a grey or beige for piecing. Match for quilting and applique
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I use beige for piecing and as I discovered mainly light green for the top.
I love cream thread, it blends in with most lighter colored materials. I also love bright colored threads for my grandkids bright quilts.
For quilting I match the background fabric and for my piecing I use a beige color.
I love all the beautiful colors of thread. Applique lets me buy and use lots of them. I find I go through light/med. grey the fastest because I use it for most of my piecing.
I use mainly white or black for piecing but love to use variegated when quilting.
I like light or med grey for piecing but quilting depends on the quilt.
I find that cream, beige and grey are the most subtle colours for piecing but “anything goes” when it comes to quilting. It all depends on the theme.
I use off-white and grey most often.
I find that I use varying shades of grey, as it blends better than anything else when I’m piecing. For hand quilting, I will match to the background fabric or to the backing, if I’m doing a scrappy quilt. And, I will admit it, I’m a “traditional” quilter and prefer my backing fabric to be muslin–bleached or unbleached doesn’t matter, so usually I use a white or beige for my quilting threads.
Suddenly the quilt speaks, I always listen which color to use, thanks for this give away
I use beige or cream the most.
I use off white or cream the most.
My Most used colours are the neutral shades for piecing. Having said that I love all those glorious colours which are perfect for applique. Aurifil has a thread for all situation. Wonderful giveaway. As a lover of your thread for me it would be the perfect prize.
Thank you for a great give away! I think I use mostly turquoise! But very often I quilt with several colours.
Some wonderful triangle quilts this week, especially loved the ones that were hand done. Great job ladies.
I use whatever thread that matches the material I am sewing or if I haven’t got any I use grey as that seems to blend the best.
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I love quilting with variegated bright threads on dark backgrounds. For piecing I mostly use grays and creams.
just love those quilts, triangles bring so much life to the design I think :-)
when quilting i love to use variegated threads in matching colours as I like the quilting to show in areas where I have sewn with plain fabrics.
love love love aurifil threads, and they’re not easy to come by in Denmark
would love to quilt all my projects with green, but i gowith white or whatever color is predominent.
I seem to use quite a bit of light tan for my piecing.
I use white alot.
I like my quilting to be seen, so the colours change all the time to suit the quilt -at the moment I am quilting a garden so bright and variegated threads with a nice sheen and quite a bit of green, and yes, Aurifil does feature, their threads are perfect for free motion quilting!
I use whatever thread that matches the color I am sewing.
Love “Over the Rainbow”!
I do thread painting. So I use the 28 wt thead. You only have one off them so that’s the one I would pick. Thous colors would works perfect for my thread paintings.
Great entries this week. I use gray for piecing usually, and for quilting most often I use a light taupe that seems to blend with everything. Love aurifil for everything!
For piecing I use light grey. I like a variegated thread for quilting, but often use white or cream also.
Actually, I haven’t tried Aurifil, but want to!
I try to use a color that matches the fabric so that my not so perfect quilting mistakes don’t look too bad.
I use a beige coloured Egyptian cotton to piece all my quilts. Recently I used white and periwinkle blue polyester threads to quilt my last quilt.
Beautiful quilts!
I like to piece my quilts with a neutral color thread if using light colored fabrics. If I use dark fabrics I like to use darker thread to match the fabric.
I love your website. The colour thread I used most often is white or off-white.
The color thread I use the most is off white. Boring, but it’s the one I need the most often.
I tend to color match–probably a left over from what I learned when learning to sew clothing. I love the rainbow in my thread box!
For piecing, I usually use a medium beige (khaki) colour. For quilting, I spend time considering the effect – to blend in or to contrast with the quilt top colours.
Camouflage is the best to piece :)
I use a lot of whites or creams first. Next I seem to use browns or grays. Finally I have many quilts that have black in the bobbin with different colors on top.
Thanks for having such a wonderful give-a-way!
I use white or neutral colors like gray or beige for piecing. Love Aurifil thread! Thanks
I love aurifil thread and use a lot of silver grey. Excellent quality always
For piecing I match the fabric color as I am trying use up some of my thread stash. If I don’t have a match I use a neutral or grey. Thanks for the giveaway
Wow what a wonderfully inspiring group of work. It was VERY hard to chose only 4. To me they are all winners. My thread is dictated by what I’m quilting.
I use a lot of beige and blue.
COLOR, COLOR, COLOR…one can never have enough choices of colors to use! Aurifil makes sure to keep all the color junkies well supplied!
Light and dark neutrals for piecing. Just depends what I am creating.
! I loved to participate! when I sew sew pieces always with 100% cotton fabric color and quilting this piece burgundy embroidery floss
I usually use a cream, tan or grey. However, if the fabric calls for color, use color.