Flower Bombed is finished! Holy moly this one has been a long but generally happy haul to the finish line! I will have to check my books but I think I created the top in early January and then it sat around while I decided what to do with it. Come March I had it figured out and loaded onto the machine.
In between those points I went to Disney and caught the plague a couple of times – that sort-o-shit really cuts into your quilting time!
Of course the very minute I took this off the frame I noticed that I had missed filling in the pearls on this bit so back on the machine it went.. lordy I am so glad that I use Leader Grips for loading my quilts. This made it fast and easy to go back on.
The borders were still wet from spraying so I did not want to take it outside so a full on shot was next to impossible. You will notice my feet in this photo. I am standing on a ladder above my bed and I still could not get high enough to get the whole quilt in any one shot. The one room where I could has craptastic light – such is life.
Since I get the question every time I will tell you that I used 2 layers of batting. Warm and White and then a fluffy layer of wool. There is an additional layer of batting under the trapunto work that makes up the Hexi flowers.
The quilt is a totally original design and all the of quilting is free motion. I did use circle templates and a small ruler on some sections. The thread is Fil-Tec Glide with match bobbins of Maga-Glide.
Below you can see the gridwork in blue pen that was penned onto the top in order to have guideline as to where I used orange-peel stitching.
The hexies were all hand pieced and then appliqued by machine onto the quilt top in a totally random pattern.
I am now officially pooped!.. I will come back tomorrow and add the story of Flower Bombed. If you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the comments and I will answer them tomorrow 🙂
The quilting is awesome! Your vision is amazing and hopefully I can see it in person someday!
This is a stunning quilt! Your quilting is amazing – so original!
So… which shows are you going to put this in? 😉 I wanna see it in person.
Oh my goodness that quilting is gorgeous! The whole quilt is gorgeous!!
where do you get your inspiration for the quilting? I imagine some of it came from the hexies, but how did you put all the various designs together?
You are so talented, just wish it come my way!
Awesome quilting. Just love it
Leona
Cool to see the whole quilt after watching the video with just parts of it done. Happy Easter!
AHH-MAAA-ZING!!! Thanks for including us in your journey, Maddie. Love how creatively you quilted all that negative space.
Oh , my , WOW ! this is gorgeous ; beyond gorgeous !
Maddie! Flower Bombed is completely over the top and glorious. Such delicious changes of patterns and designs, this is Olympic quality quilting! I am immediately starting to design a top to send to you to beg you to quilt it …. smiles and whoo-hoo, babycakes, double cool quilt!
It finished up AMAZING! Just like you!
love it …this is totally awesome….truely badddass quilting
Beautiful quilt with beautiful quilting. Great job. I enjoyed watching your process the last couple weeks.
I’m am in AWE!! This is gorgous, truly!!
Can you explain “trapunto”? Or do you have some sources that explain it? What is it? How do you do it?
Em I will post something up on the FB page for you!
Beautiful work. Great job Maddie!
beautiful have enjoyed watching you create it!
What are you going to do for the edge treatment?
Fabulous.
You rocked it out of the park GF! Totally BAQS! Totally!
Absolutely stunning! You are an inspiration!
Beautiful work Maddie !!!! Gonna save up and get me a long arm one day.. Can’t wait!!!! But in the meantime, i’ll keep studying what you guys do so i’ll be ready. Thanks for sharing.
This is THE most outstanding quilt I have ever seen! If you don’t know what to do with it, please send it my way! I’ll be more than happy to cherish and protect it forever!
Yay! It looks amazing! I’m so excited that you’re done, you totally deserve a really good glass of wine (or martini, or what have you) tonight!
This is stunning and I think your Magnum Opus…at least so far :-). I love it.
TOTALLY BADASS….. I love this quilt…..every single thing about it…….