Lisa’s “After the Rain” quilt

Hi Friends,
I’m excited to share with you Lisa’s After the Rain quilt! The pattern is by Elizabeth at Quilters Candy.

I love the colors that Lisa chose.

Lisa wanted some custom quilting just in the background, so we discussed my freehand Overlapping Circles design, and she agreed…which I’m grateful for. I’m mean, look how adorable all the mini rainbow’ish textures are behind the colorful rainbows. Love it!!! Lisa’s plan was to hand quilt the rainbows, however just to help them stand out a little, I quilted in the ditch on stripe…but then I felt line the very center needed something more. So, I suggested cross hatching and she loved that idea. Yay, again…I love it!! Just the right texture.

If you’re thinking about starting freemotion quilting, check out my Quilting It • Freemotion™ video course. My Overlapping Circles designs is one of the 10 designs that I have available, you can pick and choose whichever designs you’d like to learn. The videos are available in my shop.

Here is a short video of me quilting the Overlapping Circles on my Vimeo channel.

(If you’re reading this from an email, click this link if you don’t see the video below.) https://vimeo.com/672146793

After Lisa finished hand quilting, she sent me a bunch of pictures so you could also see the beautiful quilt finished.

As you can see, Lisa did a simple dash stitch in each of the stripes.

I used the natural white Omni thread from Superior Threads and I used my favorite cotton poly blend batting from Winline Textiles.

If you’re interested in having me quilt for you, please contact me or email me at quiltingit@gmail.com.

For more information about my quilting, go to my Longarm Quilting Services page. Thank you for reading!! Happy sewing!
• Leisha