Friday, June 12, 2009

Candy Stripes Finished!

I have finished sewing the label on the Candy Stripes quilt. Yahh!

I am happy how the wavey line quilting turned out. It's not perfect, but not bad for a first effort.

It was actually a quick way to quilt, as all the start and ending points where over in the wadding where they will get trimmed off, so no loose threads to sew in!

The backing fabric is pretty and by adding a peiced row in I managed to save a little strip for the stash.

Another close up of the quilting. It's all packaged up now and ready to post on the way up to do the school pick up this afternoon.

27 comments:

Andi said...

Looks wonderful.
Your quilting is great. Can't believe its your first attempt at this quilting style.
You quilt like a pro.
Andi :-)

Mark said...

Looks Great!! Love the quilting!

Donna said...

Wow, Helen, nice! And when I first looked at it, I was thinking, did she send this off to be quilted? You rock!

Emma said...

Wow, great quilt! I love the quilting lines; I'm storing that idea away to use myself sometime!

Ann said...

Helen, this is absolutely adorable - the quilting itself is an idea worth copying (consider it done!)Very lovely indeed.

Mom said...

it's totally delicious!!

Meredith said...

Helen, I wonder if all these comments about how professional your quilting looks reminds you of a conversation we had this morning??? :)

Lauren The Artist said...

Super fun quilting. Looks great.

Cass said...

Oh boy I love it. I love the wavy lines, fantastic. Can you tell I love it

Vicki W said...

I think your wavy line quilting looks awesome!

Sarah said...

the quilting looks great!

Mandy said...

I absolutely love this quilt!!!

Desiree said...

I really, really like the wavy line quilting. I will have to try this! And I love the idea of putting a strip down the backing. Visually very interesting! I will have to try this too, LOL!

Thanks!

MandMStudio said...

I love the quilting:)

willywagtail said...

I love the wibbly-wobblyness of the lines and the crazy quilting that yet makes sense. Gorgeous! Cherrie

byneedleandthread said...

beautiful helen! i also like quilting from one side to the other both for no thread ends and also easier not to have to rotate the quilt a million times. i'll have to try our wavy.

AJ said...

Looks like your building quite a fan base Helen!!!

Another great quilt!

Terrie Sandelin said...

Lovely quilt! And I like how the quilting works so well with the lines of the blocks. Very nice!

Lily Mulholland said...

We all like the quilting apparently! It looks great Helen :)

Sarah said...

Looks great! Love what you did with the backing
x Sarah

Red Pepper Quilts - Rita Hodge said...

I really love this quilt, in particular the quilting is fabulous!

Rita

Unknown said...

I LOVE your quilting!! The colors are really fun too :)

susan said...

sigh, helen this is a beauty!!
the colors are just so yummy!!
lucky recipient! and the quilting is perfect for it

Anonymous said...

What a sweet quilt! I love the colors.

verobirdie said...

Wonderful! I like it very much.

Joyce said...

Beautiful! Great colors!

Malli said...

Beautiful colours

I esp. love the back!