Madi’s Beautiful Things Quilt

Hello…happy weekend to you!

Excited to share this next quilt with you. It’s called Beautiful Things designed by Madi Hastings of Laser Cut Quilts. It is available in a kit with all of the pieces laser cut with their fabulous Flexi Fuse interfacing on the back. It’s an absolute breeze machine quilting through all of those appliqué layers…that’s how good it is!

It’s amazing, huh?!?!?!!!!! Madi designed it as a quilt along and has several people join her. I got to be the lucky one to quilt it custom.

The quilt says Beautiful Things Are Made One Stitch at a Time. It may be hard to catch that from my pictures. This is a good sized quilt.

I did a variety of my overlapping circles with pebbles and swirls for a majority of the background. I then did a 1/4” pinstripe behind the “things are made” section. I kept the appliqué quilting simple, and also didn’t quilt every piece. I used Linda from The Quilted Pineapple’s Edge rulers for all the straight lines. The quilting in the number one is diagonal 1/2” lines, and the grid in the heart is 1/2” as well. You can also see the border in the picture below. It’s also 1/2” I believe.

I used natural white Omni thread from Superior Threads and my favorite 8020 cotton poly blend batting. For the border I used a variegated thread to match.

I did a grassy design in the bird to create a feather look, and swirly feathers in the “at a time” part.

Here are some close ups on the details.

I used my 2” Circle2™ machine quilting circle ruler to quilt the curves in the square above.

My Circle2™ rulers are available in my shop…in a set of 6. Ranging in size from 2”-13”. For more info on them head to this post: https://www.quiltingit.com/blog/2018/10/10/introducing-my-circle2-longarm-circle-ruler-set

- Design Patent D875,574 -

Okay…so quilting these flying geese blocks became one of my favorite parts. I quilted the lines 1/2” apart. There is another look at the border, above…and the bird below. And, that sweet butterfly, feathers in the top of the wings with a swirl to fill the bottom of each wing.

This background fill really makes things pop!!

I like to mix up the textures…the curves and swirls with the hard lines in the heart and number one.

You’ll notice I didn’t quilt anything in the teal/greenish border around the “at a time”. It’s not necessary, and would have been too much to quilt it.

I also added a grid to the pin cushion at the same 1/2” measurement, and 1/4” pinstripe with a 3/4” spacing in the spool. Oh…and that swirly circle on top of the spool was fun to quilt, too…it’s the little things! I added diagonal lines and curves to the scissors.

This back turned out so fun…Madi paper pieced a butterfly, which was a little bulky to quilt though. It’s a fun touch though. It’s fun to see the quilting from the bird and butterfly show up as well.

To keep things real… I noticed I forgot to quilt to the left of this flower…I’ll pin it back on the machine and fix it when Madi brings it by. It can be hard sometimes to see what I’ve missed in a section when the thread blends so well. It’s an easy fix!! You can also see how I quilted that adorable flower. Have a great weekend!! Thanks for stopping by. • Leisha

ps…. I have a new post in my Machine Quilting 101 section, about the need for straight cut quilt backings. Check it out!! It’s not apart of my email list.