Friday, 2 August 2013

BIG FINISH - Red and White Pinwheel Quilt, Hand Pieced, Hand Quilted


Red and White Pinwheel Quilt - Hand Pieced, Hand Quilted
Red and White Pinwheel Quilt - Hand Pieced, Hand Quilted
Well, here at Fabadashery it is not often you get to see a BIG FINISH like you will today.  Usually you have to satisfy yourself with the little 6 inch Nearly Insane blocks that I am working through.  But my efforts of recent weeks have paid off, and I have completed my Red and White Pinwheel Quilt, in spite of the little trauma of washing it. 

Completed - Red and White Pinwheel Patchwork Quilt
Completed - Red and White Pinwheel Patchwork Quilt
It is a single bed quilt, hand pieced and hand quilted. I devised the design myself, with the assistance of my Electric Quilt software, and inspiration from antique quilts on the internet.  I love the look of red and white quilts like this, and would have loved to have seen the American Folk Art Museum exhibition: Infinite Variety, Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts, but it was just too far away, but I have downloaded the App onto my iPAD, and now I have my very own.

Back - Red and White Pinwheel Quilt
Back - Red and White Pinwheel Quilt
The backing is a piece of red spotty Laura Ashley fabric which has been in my stash for years.  I started the quilting at the beginning of this year, and it was completed 26th July 2013, (having an exhibition deadline definitely helps to get this sort of thing done....)


I probably started making the little pinwheels at the end of 2009, as I remember it being my hand piecing project whilst we were building our house.  The top was complete by January 2011, and the sandwich put together ready for quilting.  Having known this quilt for so long, there are a few things I may have done differently, and it is by no means perfect, but it is a finished quilt!  Anyway, no sooner had I stitched the last few stitches, and the quilt had to be packaged away for delivery to the NEC for the Festival of Quilts.  There were a few disappointed cats in the house, as they have been waiting, and waiting to test it out, but that will have to wait.

If you are heading off to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham 8th-11th August 2013, you can see my quilt among the Traditional Quilts section, No:660.  I can't wait to see it there!
  
Statistics
Dimensions: 150cm x 190cm (approx)
Piecing Method: English Paper Piecing. Hand Pieced
Quilting Method: Hand Quilted
Dates: 2009 – July 2013
Joining up with Sarah, Crazy Mom and Feline Friday today!


29 comments:

  1. What a beautiful red and white! I love it and will pin it. May be some day I give it a try!

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  2. This is sooooo beautiful. I promise to take a close look at your quilt in Birmingham. Will you be visiting?

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  3. How wonderful to have your quilt shown at the Festival, congratulations :) It's a stunning quilt, wish I could see it in real life.

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  4. It's fab fabadashery. You can really see the quilting in that first image. Wish I had made something half as good. But I'm working on it!

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  5. Did you have time to go around the quilting stars gain?

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  6. Congratulations your quilt is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Love the pin wheels and the hand quilting is spectacular. I love hand quilting my favourite part of the process. Stopping by from Quokka Quilts TGIFF. So glad I did! Have a great weekend Marie (mlismore@optusnet.com.au)

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  7. so pretty! good luck on the quilt show - your quilt is a winner!

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  8. Wow! Hand pieced and hand quilted! I'm impressed. It is a beautiful work of art. Good luck with the show!

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  9. OMG! it's beautiful. love the pinwheels, love the white, love the white and the simplicity of it. congrats! good luck on the show.

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  10. Oh wow!!! That is so pretty!! Love it!

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  11. Congratulations - it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!

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  12. Wow. I can't even imagine doing all that by hand. Very pretty!

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  13. Congratulations, a really lovely quilt.

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  14. Stunning quilt, and all the more stunning for being hand-pieced and quilted!

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  15. So gorgeous and I love that it is all hand done! Wonderful. I have been looking at my Nearly insane book and keep thinking about starting one. I have not but I reaaalllly want to. Maybe this winter. Vicki H. at www.mycreativecorner3.wordpress.com

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  16. Congratulations on a job well done! This is an heirloom for sure! 100 years from now someone will be saying "she did all that by hand???" :)

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  17. Beautiful!
    Congratulations to all that work by hand!

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  18. always love a red and white quilt. love the pattern you came up with.

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  19. I love the red and white. So clean. So classic. So beautiful.

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  20. This quilt looks amazing! I love it.

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  21. Oh what a wonderful job! So great that you finished up and it looks very lovely too. Something very classic and cheery about a red and white pinwheel quilt.

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  22. I wish I could be there to see it. It's simply wonderful!

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  23. Wow, just wow! Congrats, such a gorgeous quilt, and an heirloom for sure!

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  24. Gorgeous! And all by hand.... Great job!

    Ilse

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  25. Congratulations on finishing such a beautiful quilt. Just fabulous! I love it.

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  26. What a beautiful finish ! I have just found your blog and am going to read back on the making of this one, and will be following for sure. Thanks for showing us this beauty.
    Hilda

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  27. What a beautiful quilt! You can never go wrong with a red and white and this is just a lovely example!
    Thank goodness the color catchers did their job! I am a huge fan of them, too, but I don't think I've ever used so many on one quilt!

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  28. And I should have commented on the hand work. Yay!! Not enough hand piecers and quilters out there! A big applause to you for carrying on!

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  29. Wow, Frances. This truly is an heirloom quilt. Hand quilting is a dying art. You did a beautiful, beautiful job. Your design is gorgeous and the red and white theme is amazing. Congrats on a really big finish and thank you for linking up!

    xo -E

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