Love the wonderful pictures.

Been busy with work and the kiddos lately and haven't had much time to visit...I've looked through all of the pictures and posts and must say everyone's projects look stunning! Rosemary, I agree with everyone - that quilt is sure to win a prize!

Luann - I too received a beautiful package in the mail! Thank you so much! Not sure what I'm going to do with this beautiful fabric, but it is sure to find a happy home

Hope everyone enjoys the weekend! Just found out I've been put on call, so no rest for the wicked I'm afraid. Hoping I can sneek away from the little ones when my mother-in-law comes to visit and find a few moments of stress relief in my sewing room - but I know that will end in tears when my pager decides to go off at the worse possible moment.

Thanks for the suggestions on the white fabric. Kona has a bit of a rough texture for me, so I'll take a look at the others.

Kathy

Marianne, Olaf is a character form Disney's Frozen.

The detail in Maxiature is amazing. Impressive. Thank you for sharing.

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Rosemary,
That quilt should get a high prize! The workmanship is amazing.
You go girl!!
Luann

Kathy,
I would use Kona snow, or Kona white for background in a quilt top. It is denser than the white I use for dyeing. P&B Textiles' Dyers Muslin is a nice weight for absorbing dyes but as a white a bit too thin for me.

Rosemary, Maxiature is beautiful and I, too, wish you many prizes for that beauty. I love the border quilting--you are right, it truly called for it and is perfect.

Annis, the mug rug is so well made and unique and I would never get tired of red and white... your quilts are beautiful!

Kathy, I have not done too much with white backgrounds, but so far, my favorite white is Kona (I use the "snow" shade of white but have used the stark white as well. One of my sisters, who is a prolific quilter, has a distinct preference for Moda Bella (I've never used it so I could not tell you). I also love SewBatik's white fabric for backgrounds. As a batik, it is dense and hard to see through. Mixing batiks and other more conventional woven cotton fabrics has never been an issue for me. In fact, I mix batiks with other fabrics all the time.

Rosemary, love your little quilt. What a great job you did on it. Good luck, hope it gets a ribbon.

Margarita

Well, I am hoping that the judges don't see the mistakes that I think are there

Oh & Luann, thanks for the beautiful hand dyes they arrived safely this week

I'm stunned, Rosemary! It's just incredible and beautiful! I'm seeing many prizes in your future!!

Kathy, I haven't done much with a lot of plain white fabric, but Moda Bella solids are my favorites. I used quite a bit of an off-white in a quilt that I made for my niece that was this off-white solid with Kaffe fabrics and I didn't have trouble with show-through as long as I was careful that the Kaffe fabric wasn't wider than the solid in the seams. You could also look at Kona cottons. I like the Moda Bellas better because they're smoother, but they're a little thinner so, if you're looking for thicker, Kona might be just the ticket for you.

Amazing that's a winner I expect to see a prize on your quilt.

Phew! Maxiature is finished and handed in to the Quilt Museum in York to be taken to the Festival of Quilts, it is quilt no 221. That wasn't a cheap trip either! Izzy came too, so it was lunch out, followed by freshly cooked donuts, a visit to the Viking Loom (an embroidery & quilt shop) where I had to spend about £15 on fabrics and a magazine. Managed to duck out of buying Izzy a hoodie - she bought it herself in a sale Then went to enquire about how to use my mobile more usefully, and ended up with a new one on a monthly payment, but it seems nice and whizzy fast, rather than slow and picky about doing anything.


Maxiature and the original embroidery that inspired it.

Close up to show the quilting. I wasn't originally going to quilt the border, but the design just fit perfectly in the spacing so I had to go for it. One problem I had was that I wasn't able to stitch all the lines in the same direction around the piece, because it started spiralling an stretching some of the strip piecing out of place, so I had to keep going back on myself.