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| Custom Longarm Quilting . . . Done :-) |
The young man, the recipient of this beautiful quilt, has certainly been heavily involved in sports. What a great gift this T-shirt quilt will be. Every time he looks at it, sleeps under it, wraps up in it, he will re-visit all those wonderful moments playing on these teams; the camaraderie, the sportsmanship, the wins, the losses, the struggle. All those memories. What a truly wonderful gift.
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| before quilting |
While sitting down with this customer we looked at different quilting techniques and decided that since this quilt is for a young adult, we would stay away from the typical child motifs for these sports. We chose quilting the "X"s in the sashing and border along with the meandering around the screenprinting
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The "X"s look similar to hockey sticks, so without being kitchy, it still complimented the overall theme of hockey.
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| see the cool quilting in the blue block |
There are a few plain filler blocks in this quilt, so to stay with the "X"s and meandering, we decided to do something a bit more unique with these blocks. These techniques are taught by
Angela Walters If you're interested in more like this vistit
Angela's You Tube page.
All the quilting on this quilt is hand guided quilting. No computer; and in this case the only elements I marked are the criss-cross lines separating the meandering in these filler blocks. I used my presser foot to gauge the spacing for the "X"s.
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| sashing and block detail |
The batting in this quilt is 100% cotton. Don't know what brand as it was supplied by my customer. But know that, if you are having me quilt your quilt, I do supply batting. You can find out all about that on
my website .
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| the back of this quilt |
The thread I used on this quilt is
Superior Threads Magnifico Thread. I used this in both the needle and in the bobbin. I used a matching grey thread for the sashing and then used this throughout the whole quilt in the bobbin. For each of the blocks I matched the thread in the needle to the colors in each block. I think because of the extra layer of interfacing behind each block, this allowed me to keep the bobbin thread the same throughout without having the bobbin thread pull through to the top. I am very careful with my tension, but that extra layer certainly did help.
Check out the back of this quilt. You can see on this back that I did stitch in the ditch around all the blocks. Ditching really does a lot to stabilize a quilt both on the longarm machine and off.
One more peek at this quilt.
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| one more look at the custom longarm quilted beauty |
So if you like what you see here and have a T-shirt quilt top you need quilted, I would love to quilt it for you. This quilt measures about 100" x 100". And converted to a square inch price, this quilt cost just under $0.04 cents per square inch to quilt, about $375. So go ahead and check out my website
Quilts By Hannelore or call me at 231-970-1340 or message me using the comments section below. Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a great day, Hannelore
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