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My current project is a series of small quilts for my work cubicle. Each quilt is approximately 60cm (24") square and so far all follow the same format - a central print panel, a narrow framing border and a wider outer border. The inner print panel is machine embroidered to accentuate the print design, and the outer border is finished with a feathered quilting border design.

Paint Box Flowers


The outer border quilting is the same undulating feathered border as the other two, but enhanced with additional quilting within each loop of the feather and an echo line outside. (This is the most recent of the quilts - Blogger seems to load the pictures in reverse order). The centre panel is simply quilted with outline quilting in black on all the design lines.

Gerberas


The centre panel of this quilt has been heavily embellished with lots of free-hand quilting following the design lines of the three different coloured flowers. I think this is why the edges of the quilt don't sit flat. The outer border quilting is done in a contrasting orange thread so it shows up a bit more than on the other two.

Poppies















I love this fabric. On this one I outlined the poppies in pink, including the coloured sections. (The print is quite stylised with blocks of colour in the pink poppy petals). When outlining the centres in black I added lines (sepals) and later sewed a black seed bead on the end of each sepal. The stems are grey in the print, but I outlines them in lime green and also used lime green for the outer border quilting (though it still doesn't show up very well in the photo).