I want to share this beautiful quilt with you. My friend, Nancy Smith, gave me permission to share this quilt. She actually made the top, all hand applique, and I quilted it for her. Nancy specializes in hand applique and hand quilting and has made several of Kim McLean's quilts plus many many more.
One of the things that Nancy does on many is choose her own fabrics and colorways and does a beautiful job. She has made Flower Pots, Lollypop Trees, and the Hearts and Flowers quilt and they are all hand quilted.
I hope you enjoy seeing her work. I'll have to check with her and post some of her other finished quilts.
As I was quilting this I realized just how difficult it must have been to make, yet she did a wonderful job! Many pieces and tiny curves, but worth the effort. I'm sorry but I do not have a picture with a full view of the quilt but thought you'd enjoy the close-ups anyway.
I want to share this beautiful quilt with you. My friend, Nancy Smith, gave me permission to share this quilt. She actually made the top, all hand applique, and I quilted it for her. Nancy specializes in hand applique and hand quilting and has made several of Kim McLean's quilts plus many many more.
One of the things that Nancy does on many is choose her own fabrics and colorways and does a beautiful job. She has made Flower Pots, Lollypop Trees, and the Hearts and Flowers quilt and they are all hand quilted.
I hope you enjoy seeing her work. I'll have to check with her and post some of her other finished quilts.
As I was quilting this I realized just how difficult it must have been to make, yet she did a wonderful job! Many pieces and tiny curves, but worth the effort. I'm sorry but I do not have a picture with a full view of the quilt but thought you'd enjoy the close-ups anyway.
This is great. The applique is fantastic (love her colors) and the quilting is great as well. Great job!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt! Nancy's applique and fabrics are wonderful. Your quilting takes it up a notch or two? It's fabulous! :)
ReplyDeleteI hand quilted my PF. Very labor intensive. I wish I could afford to have the Roseville quilted with your quality of work.
I love this quilt, it is absolutely stunning!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for pulling in Nancy's wonderful quilt for us to see, Judith! Your quilted feathers are really beautiful. We'd love to see more of Nancy's work.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, well done by both.
ReplyDeleteI have thought Princess Feather an amazing quilt since Ann posted her Princess Feather beauty.
Funny, when Ann posted her quilt I had never heard of Kim McLean or owned a single piece of Kaffe fabric.
How times change.
I better go visit my lonely stash of Civil War Repros.
Gorgeous! Both the applique and the quilting. Thanks so much for sharing and be sure to pass along the 'oohs and aahs'!
ReplyDeleteIt's great. I love this quilt :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing !
Beautiful!!! Both of you done a great job.
ReplyDeleteStunning is absolutely right. I'm so impressed with both the applique and the exquisite quilting. Kudos to both of you! Please show us more.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all the wonderful comments and I will pass them along to Nancy. I've told her to visit the blog and I'm sure she will. It's great to be part of such an encouraging group where everyone does such interesting work. I just love seeing everyone's quilts and reading the comments! Judith
ReplyDeleteBeautiful--absolutely beautiful--color choices and quilting! Would love to see Nancy's others!
ReplyDeleteVery stunning quilt, love the quilting too.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Kim as best designer in the 2011 Golden Quilter Awards go here to vote http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/2011/03/vote-for-your-favorite-nominees-for.html
Holy Smokes! Wow - that's just beautiful. I want to make one!! Out of my league for now, though, and I'm not allowed to start a new project until more UFO's are completed. . . ::sigh::
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing Nancy's amazing quilt Judith. Absolutely beautiful and your quilting makes it superb. xo
ReplyDeleteGolly Gosh Nancy, that is one gorgeous quilt, I had a lump in my throat as I zoomed into the photos. That happened when I saw Ann Champion's PF too. Beautiful quilting Judith, the feathers are really lovely. Can we see Nancy's other quilts too please? Thank you for sharing this quilt Judith, Kim McL
ReplyDeleteNancy needs to join our blog! She is certainly our kind of people. Imagine having so many finished Kim quilts so beautifully quilted. The quilting is really inspired, a helpful model for us all. I'm so glad you shared Nancy's work.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing, her work is beautiful and your quilting is absolutely gorgeous. It adds so much to the flow of the quilt.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt looks stunning. Both the applique and the quitling. Of course we'd love to see more of Nancy's quilts. Thanks for thinking of sharing Judith, it might help spur us on.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for all the kind comments. I'll put more photos up when I get them from Nancy. It always helps to see that long term project quilts do get finished!
ReplyDeletewell this is absolutely beautiful....I have to break out of Westminister Fabric MOLD and use some other fabrics on the RA that I am working.
ReplyDeleteLove Love Love your quilt. You are so inspiring
Wow! Both of you did a beautiful job! I can't wait to see more.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt is absolutely gorgeous. As everyone has already been commenting, both the appliqué and quilting. You should definitely get more photos of Nancy's beautiful quilts and convince her to join the blog conversation. She has an amazing talent. But I may be a tiny bit prejudiced. She's my mom <3
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