Kristin’s Color My World quilt

Sep 21

Hello, thanks for visiting Quilting It. I’m excited to share with you one of the quilts I had the privilege of quilting earlier this year. It’s an amazing one!

Kristin made this amazing Color My World quilt. The pattern is by Wendy Williams. Kristin wanted custom quilting, which is perfect for this quilt.

It may be hard to see, but look extra close in the background behind the trees there are pebbles, which is something I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion video course. The swirls, which I also teach in my course, you can see quilted in the trees around the center. These two designs are ones that Kristin requested, after seeing them on another quilt. She left everything else up to me. She loved it, and so do I.

I used the natural white Omni thread from Superior Threads and 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline Textiles.

When it came to the quilting in the houses, I quilted in the ditch with an x in the windows or doors. I also tried to highlight the shape of the roof’s in the center…let’s just call them the suburbs, haha…with a couple of simple v shapes.

The center star also go some echoed lines inside and out. See those white dashes, aka the lines down the middle of the road, I quilted in the ditch on each of them individually. The overall look is worth it.

Here is a close up of it all.

You can see the lines in the city buildings a little better in these close ups. I used a couple of Edge rulers from Linda at The Quilted Pineapple to quilt all the lines.

You can see that I quilted my Overlapping Circles design in the rest of the background from the road out to the border. It’s one of my favorite designs to quilt freemotion, and it’s also one of the designs I teach in my course. It’s a fabulous design and creates the best texture!! It also fills up a space quite nicely.