On the schedule this month was a silk quilt a customer brought me. Her request was that I quilt only the borders and sashings on this quilt, as she wants to embellish/stitch the blocks herself. We chose to use Quilters Dream Wool batting for dimension, and she chose a King Tut variegated green for the border and a King Tut variegated salmon for the sashings. Her choice for bobbin thread was a Sew Fine called Pumpkin.
After much hesitation and trepidation over quilting on silk, and with a little encouragement from friends, I loaded the quilt and began. During our customer appointment, we had chosen the designs to use, so really all I had to do was quilt. But, as any longarmer knows, quilting on silk brings it’s own set of hesitations with it.
I now know there is no reason to hesitate, silk, or at least Dupioni silk, quilts up beautifully and I am inspired to use some of my silks soon.
The border and corner:
Sashing:
Back of quilt:
Unfortunately there is no way to take a full picture of the entire quilt. This quilt was the absolute maximum I can load onto my machine 105″ wide!
Stunning!
Wow!
Fantabulous Judy. I love the gorgeous colors.
So beautiful! Love it!!
Absolutely gorgeous, Judy. 105 inches!! This lady has a long way to go doing her part. Maybe she’ll bring it back for you to finish once she sees what you’ve done.
Gorgeous !!
Your quilting looks fantastic!!! Don’t you just love the way silk quilts up.
Beautiful. Fantasic quilting. Love it.
It’s beautifully done!
Just wonderfully beautiful!