Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hand Pieced Inchie Quilt

Being more of a machine piecer myself, I am always impressed by the skill and amazed at the patience of hand piecers.  As the name of the quilt suggests, this quilt is made up of 1 inch squares all of which have been hand pieced by my customer Charmaine.



This little quilt was a delight to quilt.  To make the printed squares pop up, I have quilted continuous curves around the cream background squares.  I love the circular effect this has created around the printed squares.



Here is a close-up of the sashing and the border.



I believe Charmaine has made a beautiful little quilt.  She picked it up today and tells me she has another just like it under way - hand piecing must be rather addictive!

14 comments:

  1. Beautiful quilt! Lovely handwork and quilting.

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  2. Fantastic quilting! I love to see quilting that enhances the piecing. This is inspirational.

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  3. I love the closeup shots of this gorgeous little quilt. The circles are perfect around the squares. Another beautiful quilting pattern, quilted beautifully!!! xo

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  4. I LOVE that quilt - definitely going to make an inchie quilt, although not hand pieced. This quilting adds a lot of interest to the quilt - love the overall simplicity though.

    Rita

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  5. Karen...I really love the quilting here. Stunning work, as always x

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  6. As you say, the quilting really brings out the printed fabrics.
    Beautiful work, as always.
    Andi :-)

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  7. I'm going to remember that red border design - love it! Also....I've always wondered how people keep their curves uniform like you did on that white border (they've always scared me!). Do you premark that or what?

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  8. la,la,LOVE this!!! Both the quilt and the quilting are Gorgeous!!! Perfect designs in the borders too!

    Thanks for shairng the close up pics!!

    Love from Texas! ~bonnie

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  9. OMG, this is beautiful! I want one. I will be putting on my list to do one of these. The pics are great. Thanks for sharing this one!

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  10. As always very nice. Thanks for your emails!

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  11. Hand-piecing is very addicting. And this is a beautiful example...

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  12. what an amazing quilt! the quilting is fantastic, too. the circles add a lot of interest. so nice!

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  13. I recently came across your blog and I love it. This has to be my favourite quilt of the ones that I've looked at so far. It is so detailed and beautiful and your quilting sets the tiny squares off to perfection. It is a stunning combination.

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