Hello! I hope that your year is off to a good start. I have sooo many quilts to share with you, but I have a question. Would you prefer blog posts with just one quilt or a bunch of different quilts? I know it can get time consuming to read a long post and look at a bunch of pictures. But, I also don’t want to flood your inbox with lots of emails. Please comment below, which you’d prefer. For now I may try doing one quilt a post, or if I quilted multiple quilts for one of my clients, the. I’ll do all of hers in one post.

This incredible quilt was made by Kristan!! It’s by Leonie Bateman and it’s her Evandale quilt pattern. I try and link patterns or other things that I use to quilt in these blog posts. If you word “Evandale” above, that is underlined, it will take you to the pattern.

Also, a little tip! When you can, buy directly from the pattern designer. Same goes for quilting designs. The product is the exact same. You’re helping the designer earn more for the work that they’ve done. When companies sell our patterns or designs they take a portion of the sale. I’m grateful for those who sell my designs on their website’s and the company that I co-design with, don’t get me wrong. I appreciate all the support that I’ve gotten over the years with my designs!!! Thank you so much!

This quilt is truly incredible!!

In the tan background throughout the quilt I quilted a freehand people design. I actually have this same design digitized and available at Urban Elementz. It’s called Soda Pop and is by Patricia Ritter and myself. I also quilted some feathers and other details in the appliqué.

Here is a close up of the borders that are around the center block. Some ribbon candy, tiny circles in the thinnest border, some crosshatch pinstripes in the diamonds and some back and forth lines behind the diamonds to make them pop more.

Here is a close up on the flying geese. Initially I quilted a orange peel with the additional arc inside the flying geese, but then decided to add the same swirl hook design that I did on the blocks in the biggest border. Which is fun to do!! I love to put the same design in more than one place on a custom quilted quilt. It ties the overall design together better. I used one of my Circle2™ machine quilting circle rulers to quilt the orange peel and arc. I should have written it down. I think I used the 6” or 7” circle. I can’t remember. The reason I only sell the set is because each quilt is different. For one quilt you’ll need a 3” or 4”, for another quilt you made need the 9”. The circles range in size from 2”-13”.

Here is a look at the biggest Circle2™ ruler the 7”/13”. This is from the clear set, they are also available in green. - Design Patent D875,574 -

I used my favorite 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline, and a golden tan thread for the entire quilt.

Here are a couple of the blocks that are in the biggest border. You’ll see in the center star that same swirly hook design. I actually posted a video on my Instagram back when I quilted it, on how to quilt it. Click here to be taken to it: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGdoL4bn8sk/?igshid=17j2p2r1xy0qn