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Monday, 26 October 2015

Online Bloggers' Quilt Festival - Radiant Poppies

My second entry in the October Online Bloggers' Quilt Festival is my Radiant Poppies quilt, and I'm entering it into the Hand Quilted section.


I made this quilt for the Pantone Radiant Orchid challenge last year.  I used Elizabeth Hartman's Kitchen Window pattern, but stopped at three rows so it would be a lap quilt. I chose the Joel Dewberry Poppies fabric as my feature fabric, and worked out from there.


I hand quilted around each of the window panes, but then also quilted diagonal lines across the quilt with Perle 8.  I enjoy hand quilting with Perle 8, and I love the finished look that it gives. If you're interested in hand quilting I recommend you join the Celebrate Hand Quilting group on Facebook.  They're a great group of people (men and women), always willing to help other quilters.




This quilt is 52" x 52" and you can read more about it here in my original blog post.

I'll leave you with a view of the back - I just had to use up those beautiful Joel Dewberry poppies.


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13 comments:

  1. margaret26 October 2015 at 20:34

    what a beauty, loving the hand quilting, think I must hand quilt my flimsies as I have given up with the machine and they are piling up!

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  2. Maryse26 October 2015 at 21:48

    Beautiful, the quilting on this one reminds me of the rain slidding across the window ...

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  3. Stitchin At Home27 October 2015 at 00:41

    Beautiful quilt and lovely hand quilting!

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  4. Kris27 October 2015 at 01:41

    So bright and beautiful!

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  5. Rochelle aka Bella Quilts27 October 2015 at 12:34

    So happy to see this quilt entered. I love the colors and the hand quilting.

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  6. Julie27 October 2015 at 16:18

    Love those poppies!! So nice to see someone using vibrant solids in a large amount for a quilt rather than white, grey or black all the time. Makes me feel so much happier with my current projects colour palette.

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  7. SarahZ30 October 2015 at 03:56

    Oh what rich gorgeousness! I look forward to trying some perle 8 on an upcoming finish! This is beautiful, and so daring to use that purple as the background!

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  8. Quilting Babcia30 October 2015 at 09:32

    Lovely quilt Wendy!

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  9. patchworkowy 31 October 2015 at 02:23

    Beautiful quilt Wendy :)

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  10. Vera31 October 2015 at 08:46

    The first pic is really radiant! Fab colors!

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  11. Live a Colorful Life31 October 2015 at 14:24

    Wendy, this is such a vibrant quilt--love all the pops of color. And the hand quilting is really beautiful.

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  12. Gemini Jen NZ31 October 2015 at 22:12

    Beautiful quilt! Your hand quilting is superbly done!

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  13. Kate1 November 2015 at 02:39

    Wow! Bold, bright and beautiful! Love the purple and those poppy prints.

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