Beth’s amazing Smitten Quilt

Hi Friends,

I hope you’re having a great week! I have a few fun things going on over here. I recently had the opportunity to have a chat with Susan Smith on her Measure Twice Cut Once podcast. We talked about quilting, business, and creating passive income. Go have a listen. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you may have seen me post about a running challenge I gave myself. If not, I decided to run 100 in 3 months which I accomplished in 2.5 months. So of course I had to keep going, and I’m hoping to get to 200 miles, which includes the first 100, by September 1st. I’m at 123.4 miles, after my run today! It’s exciting for me to have goals in every part of my life. I’m especially grateful to be able to run again, after not being able to for 19 years. Also, I just had a huge site wide sale!!! I’m so grateful for the support I’ve received over the years. Being about to create designs for you and your client’s quilts is such a joy for me. I love seeing them on social media when people tag me. Thank you!!

Now…let talk about this amazing quilt that Beth made. It’s the Smitten pattern by Lucy Carson Kingwell. It is done by hand using the English paper piecing method. Incredible huh?!?!!!! Beth said that she took 4 years to sew this together. Which I think is incredibly fast. I’m over 7 years on my hexie flower quilt. There are some Smitten patterns on Etsy that come with the papers.

This is Beth’s second Smitten quilt that I’ve quilted. Her first she gave to her daughter. She actually made up a few of the blocks herself, using some of the shapes. It’s also fun to see all the Tula Pink fabrics that she fussy cut to show the print so beautifully.

The black fabric certainly helps all the other fabrics pop!

I used a Medium Grey Omni thread from Superior Threads to quilt it, and Beth brought a pieced batting from a bunch of leftover scraps. It worked great!

I quilted Patricia Ritter and my Sweet Marmalade design on it. I think the texture turned out beautifully on the fabrics and blocks. Sweet Marmalade is available at Urban Elementz.

I could quilt get a picture of the entire quilt, so hopefully you enjoy a few of these close ups.

Check out the fussy cutting on those blocks.

The block below is my favorite!! Tula Pink’s fabrics are perfect for quilts like these.

Another close up…

I love all those fabulous colors together.

And, of course a quilt swirl is always a fun picture to show the texture and colors.

Check out this backing!! Solid minky does an excellent job showing off all the quilty texture!

I am almost caught up with quilting. If you have some quilts that you’d like quilted edge to edge, please let me know. Email me at quiltingit@gmail.com or contact me. I’m hoping to quilt about 20 quilts a month edge to edge, and 5 or so quilts custom. I would love to quilt for you!! For info about my quilting services go to my Longarm Quilting Services page. Thank you, and happy quilting! Leisha