Monday, 16 December 2019

Red Letter Life

My "Red Letter Life" quilt is completed ...... or is it?

This quilt was inspired by two things that happened in the summer. Firstly, Sophie of lunalovequilts blogged about her "Love" quilt. I love everything about this quilt, but especially the abstract lettering in the centre. Secondly, the theme in the upstairs room of our Flowerpatch Quilters exhibition was LOVE so I did my own abstract lettering to make a mini quilt 7½" square. I foundation pieced the letter squares then sewed them together.

By the by I also did another mini quilt for the exhibition using inktense pencils to draw the letters and added quilting and embroidery.

The quilting of Red Letter Life took quite a while. Its vertical wavy lines were sewn by machine with my walking (even feed ) foot. 

I avoided all the red letters and quilted these by hand with horizontal lines. I really like the effect of the two types and directions of the quilting.

From the beginning I planned to sew small circles on my quilt to represent the happy bubbly feeling I often get in my life ......... especially when I'm starting a new quilt! I scattered some buttons on the quilt and took a pic ......

......but they simply looked distracting, so I ended up just sewing on some red circles around the edge.

I think though that I may be tempted to add more little circles to my quilt - maybe very subtle ones - we shall see.

Red Letter Life measures 32½" square and I'm hoping that you've been able to read my abstracted words.

Happy Bubbles - Anita x

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