2016 Finished Quilts - On Pointe - Quilt 4

I posted about this quilt back in November.  You can read more about it here.  I was really please on how this one turned out.  For a medallion quilt, a sampler quilt, and a busy quilt with such an array of fabric prints.

But seeing it all together, and laid out, it is just impressive.  The colors flow from one block to the next, and it is a stunning selection of fabrics.  This is a really big quilt.  It has 14 12" sample quilt blocks, plus the 24" square center block.

This is a picture of the center, or the medallion portion.  There was an appliqué option, but I chose the pieced option.  

The next four pictures show the four quadrants of the quilt, so you can get a close up of the blocks that were used in the quilt.  Each block is different from the next, giving it the sampler look.

This is a close up of the quilting and the borders.  The flower print at the outer border is a happy look.  I like that in this quilt.

I am alway a fan of stripes for backings and bindings, and this is no different.  This backing is in this line of fabrics, but was not used in the front of the quilt at all.  I am glad, because these complicated blocks would not look good using the stripe.  It then works perfect for the backing.

Next are the specific facts about the quilt:

Size: 83" X 105"

Fabric Lines Used:  Williams In, by Nancy Halverson for Bentarex Fabrics

Pattern: On Point

Designer: Bits 'n Pieces

Long Arm Quilter: Carol Nelson Logan

Year Began:  2009

Year Completed: 2016  

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Picture Day

Today's post will have lots of pictures of the projects I have gotten done, but unable to get pictures.

This was a UFO BOM from 2009, I had the 13 blocks done, plus the medallion pieced center (the pattern has an appliquéd center, but I chose to do the pieced center)

Here is a peek of the folded quilt top and the backing.  It is off to the quilter tomorrow.  

The whole quilt was made using the line called Williams Inn by Nancy Halverson 

The town I live in is fairly small, about 150,000 people, and so our resources are sometimes pretty slim, and there is always a place to be charitable.  We have a small hospice center that has a christmas ornament auction for it's annual fund raising.  They put an add in our local paper asking all quilters to make and donate quilted christmas ornaments for this years auction.  I wanted to make ten, but time got away from me, so I only ended up getting six completed.  They were hoping to get about 500 donated, so I am hoping there are other quilters in our small town that will step up and help them out.

I bought this pre-printed fabric apron pattern quite a few year back.  I wanted / needed a new apron (and yes I use one when I cook, it saves lots of food spots on my clothes), particularly a full body one.

Here is the finished product.  Almost too cute and pretty to use.

Close up of one of the two pockets.  Yes the lace edging was included in the pattern package.

Close up to the bottom ruffled edge.

Finally, this is the "Leftover Quilt" that I made with the scraps leftover from the basket quilt BOM that I wrote about here.  I made a simple nine-patch, and did some even simpler quilting.

I bound it with the same muslin that I used in the quilt.  I found it gave it an older simple look that I really like.  

The backing is also from Moda like the prints used in the blocks, just not from the same designer, but it has most of the colors from the front, and blends really well.  The added bonus is that I picked up this backing at a garage sale for $3.00.  So the whole quilt is nothing but gathered bits and pieces of scraps. 

This is about the best I could do for a full view picture of the quilt.  It quilted up nicely, lays and folds beautiful.  I haven't even washed it yet and it is soft and molds to you when used.  

My new motto:  Simple is better!

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