Maple Leaf Modern Mini
It’s Blogger’s Quilt Festival! Thank you Amy for hosting this fantastic online event for all of us.
This quilt is my entry in the mini category. I designed and sewed this quilt for publication in Quilter’s Connection magazine and it was published in the Spring 2014 issue along with an opinion piece that I wrote about modern quilting. This quilt measures 19.5 x 17.5 inches.
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| Maple Leaf Modern Mini designed and quilted by Anita LaHay. |
I photocopied a maple leaf line drawing that I found on a free clipart site in different sizes and then traced them onto ‘Heat n Bond Light’ fusible web. I fused them to the grey (Kona solid) background and then stitched around the edges in matching threads. The red maple leaves are hand stitched around the edges with a blanket stitch (because they are special Canadian maple leaves) and the rest are straight stitched on the machine. I machine quilted around the outside with pebble quilting.
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| Backed with grey polka dots. |
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| Crinkly after being washed and dried. |
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| A close-up of quilting and blanket stitching on one of the red maple leaves. |
I hope you like my quilt and please consider voting for it when the voting opens in the festival. Thank you for stopping by to see it.
I love the way those beautiful leaves are swirling in the wind.
I really like this! krista@sewwhatscooking.com
Love the colors!
Nicely done! And even more cool that you submitted it for publication. I would love to do more of a modern quilt and just haven't had the guts to try one yet. I even got a design book of exercises to take steps to trying. A small quilt might be a great way for me to try. 🙂 Sam
Like the mini whirlwind of leaves. 24Tangent "at" gmail "dot" com
What a fun Mini quilt. I like the multi-colored leaves. Congrats of getting published.
Love this, it's beautiful. The teeny ones in the middle are really sweet!
What a sweet quilt. Great job.
Ah, the maple leaf always does my heart glad! Lovely work. 🙂
I love raw edge applique – and you did an amazing job on this quilt. Those leaves look like they are floating on a breeze !
Very nice! I like it!
This is sweet!
fab quilt, I love the swirl of leaves