Detail Pictures of Quilting Stitches
I promised a few weeks back to post some close up pictures of my quilting. At the beginning of August I had 10 quilt tops in need of quilting - I’m half done! It’s taken over 100 hours of quilting as I like my work to be very heavily stitched. It is rare for there to be an open area larger than 1/4″.
I like the look but sometimes I wonder if I need to find a way to quilt that isn’t so darn time intensive. Then maybe I could get more work done. But again I think I spend as much time or more piecing some of the quilt tops (Structures #47 posted in august took me months to piece and 100s of hours).
Note: You can see the stitching better if you click the pictures and view the larger images.
I do a lot of quilting like this - where I just echo the shapes of the piecing with parallel lines and matching thread.
Detail of Structures #36 © 2005:
Detail of Structures #46 © 2005:
In the next 2 pieces I broke up the larger pieced shapes with smaller areas of quilting. Still with thread that matched the fabric. This gives the quilts a really interesting texture - almost like looking at farm fields from an airplane.
Detail of Structures #35 © 2005:
Detail of Structures #40 © 2005:
Again I broke up larger areas with smaller areas of quilting but used contrasting thread colors. I love this one and will do more of the contrasting thread. Of course this method is the slowest with all with little areas of quilting and switching thread color so often. I guess no surprise there - the better it looks the longer it takes to do!
Detail of Structures #41 © 2005:
Full view image of these quilts will appear soon. I’m building a portable photography wall with pvc pipe so I can take my own photos. Maybe this weekend I’ll finish that project.
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debra said,
September 15, 2005 @ 9:19 am
I’m impressed with all your work… but I can’t clearly see… is it done it hand??
I especially like the last photo.. the red and blue one with the contrasting thread… as a photo. It may be the colors or it may be that on a monitor it’s easier to see.
Lisa said,
September 15, 2005 @ 9:33 am
Thanks. It is all machine quilted. I quilt with my feeddogs up - going back and forth and turning the quilt at the end of each line. It’s a lot of work on a big quilt. I don’t feel I have the control I want to do this type of straight line quilting freemotion.
There is more detail in the bigger pictures if you click the small images.
I have calibrated my monitor at home but it still amazing how differently each monitor is. Makes me wonder if we will have have enough consistency in this area to trust our digital images really look as we intend when we submit them to shows.
The last picture is grey and red. The stitching is brown, green, grey and red.
Karoda said,
September 19, 2005 @ 11:56 pm
I was thinking like Debra, that the quilting was by hand. I love it.
Scrapmaker said,
September 20, 2005 @ 8:45 am
The quilting is wonderful. Luckily I can see it fairly well. I think it’s exhausting to drag large pieces through a small machine, so I find myself reluctant to work large. What machine are you quilting on? Jen