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Thursday, December 13, 2012

do.Good Stitches - Candy Land Quilt FINISHED!!

This is my ONE finished item from the Fourth Quarter FAL (that's my original post with all my projects) with Rhonda over at Quilter in the Gap. I am linking it up here in the final link up.



It is finally here! This has been a long time in the making, and well worth it. I am so grateful for all the Harmony girls to helped with this quilt. :) It's taken me WAY to long to finish, and I apologize for that, and I am glad no one got mad at me for being so slow. ;)


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If you want to make this quilt, you can find the tutorial for 1-2 blocks here. I definitely want to make this again, and it's been on my list for a long time to make a full pattern of it. Now that it's finished, I REALLY want to make another. I love how it turned out! These are prewash pictures. I get nervous about what quilts will look like after the wash, so I always take before and after pictures in case it looks horrible, which they never do. Anyway, here are some more photos of it:


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I did a 1/4" echo quilting around all the strips and really loved how crisp and simple it looked, but the wider spaces definitely needed something. I decided to go with the clamshell design from Angela Walter's book, Free Motion Quilting. I REALLY love how it looks with the quilt. This is the very center.


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Some more quilting around the top.


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I think this shows the quilting really well. It was hard to get a good shot of this quilt.


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I also love the binding on this! I think the light green gives it just the right accent without taking away from all the colors in the quilt. I did one little corner of a darker green to add some contrast (and I was like 5 inches shy of enough of the main binding fabric (it's by Henry Glass, not sure what. The dark green is from the Dear Stella line, a little something I got from Sewing Summit!) :)


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It's such a cozy quilt. I can't wait to wash it and send it off. Crossing my fingers that the recipient will really love it!


Make sure to head over to Stitched in Color and check out all the Celebrate Good Stitches! stuff going on! I LOVE looking at all the quilts that everyone has made!


The linky party will be up shortly. Sorry in advance for the blogging overload today.
It happens when it happens, and sometimes that's all at once. ;)

Diane

8 comments:

  1. This is so cute! What a great layout and the quilting is gorgeous.

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  2. ok sold.. I am going to follow your tutorial and make one!! That is just beautiful!

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  3. Oh Diane it turned out beautiful....

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  4. It's really beautiful and stunning!

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  5. This quilt is beautiful! I'm sure the recipient will absolutely fall in love with it!

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  6. This looks great! That scalloped quilting is so nice in the negative spaces.

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  7. I LOVE the scallop quilting you did on the white parts, such a great look!! I love it, it is so pretty!

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