Kathy’s Shadowed Daisy Quilt

Hi there,

I have a beautiful quilt to share with you today!!!

Kathy made this lovely Shadowed Daisy quilt, and she did her own block arrangement. The pattern shows all the white background pieces on the right side. I love what Kathy did!!! The pattern is by Evelyn L. McCarty, who was a pattern and template designer years ago. She has since passed away, so I couldn’t find this pattern online. Maybe check with your local shop, and see if they can order it from their distributors.

Kathy requested wool batting, which added some lovely loft to all this custom quilting. I use the Hobbs wool, and it’s delightful. I’ve loved using it in some of my own quilts.

I used my favorite Edge rulers from Linda at The Quilted Pineapple to quilt all the lines.

Kathy wanted something quilted in the white fabrics to help it stand out, so I drew out a design…which I’ll show you in a moment, and sent it to her. I was trying to figure out something to quilt behind the daisy’s to soften all the hard lines that I had already quilted. I decided on my freehand Overlapping Circles which is one of the designs that I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion course. If you’re interested in learning how to quilt freemotion, you should check it out!!

Here is my drawing…as you can see I didn’t draw out the Overlapping Circles. Sometimes I have to quilt a portion of a design out, to then figure out what else to quilt.

I used a few of my Circle2 machine quilting circle rulers to quilt all the curves. I used the 4” Circle2 ruler for the petals in the center of the arc design. I used the 13” ruler for the lovely arcs in the white. For all the curves in the flower petals and the ones in the border, I used the 7” Circle2 ruler. Below is the 4”/10” ruler in clear. Each set comes with 6 rulers, with two sizes of circles per ruler. The circles range in size from 2” up to 13”. They are made from 1/4” high quality acrylic in America. This set is so versatile.

- Design Patent D875,574 -

Here is a close up!! So much great quilty texture.

I used cream Omni 3004 thread from Superior Threads for the entire quilt, with the exception of the navy and green thin borders. I used threads that match the fabrics.

The back on this quilt is so pretty!!! It’s fun for me to see all my hard work look so wonderful together.

Thanks for stopping by!! If you’re interested in having me quilt for you, send me an email at quiltingit@gmail.com and I’ll get you on my schedule. Because custom quilting can take longer than edge to edge quilting, I’m going to schedule only a limited amount each month.

Have a wonderful day!! Happy quilting! Leisha