Island Batik Steam Engine Quilt - Part 3

I have had such fun quilting this project made with Island Batik's Steam Engine collection.

With this project I have decided to let the fabrics inspire my free motion quilting choices.  For this gray fabric I chose to do random squares.

 Here I did triangles to form a star and some simple continuous curve in the small squares that only measure 1 inch. 

This gray got a zigzag/chevron motif.

On this fabric I was trying to decide which color thread to use.  The funny thing is I chose neither of these colors.  I figure you want to see it, so I used blue instead.

The blue looks great, doesn't it?  

For this chain link fabric I made arches on the bottom.

And then when back and made them from the top too.  Super easy to do and a great texture was created.

 For this purple fans fabric I chose to do a few classic feathers.

And feathers in these two purple connected rectangles as well.

For this gear fabric I tried to make gears.  Three arches with a chunky arch in the middle.  It's hard to see, but it was fun to do.

This piece was so large I made three gear arches.

 I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Island Batik Steam Engine Collection Quilt - Part 2

I love being an Island Batik Ambassador!  This Steam Engine collection is just gorgeous.  I love how the quilt turned out.  Now on to the quilting!

In the big outer rectangles I quilted tall slim triangles to match the fabric

For the hexagon fabric I simply quilted around the edge of all the hexagons. 

Next was the big blue gear fabric.  I did a wiggle down the small blue squares.

I did a zigzag of the squiggles in the longer border.

For the swirling triangles I decided to simply put some triangles around the edges.

More soon!

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Island Batik Steam Engine Collection Quilt Part 1

That moment when you are almost done with a quilt and have to decide on a border....and you get stuck.  I made this quilt with a gorgeous stack of fat quarters from Island Batik's Steam Engine collection.  I had a blast playing with color placement.  But did it need a border?

Here is the quilt without a border.

Here is a light gray border.

And a bluey purple gray border.

I decided to skip the border and get right to quilting!  I picked out the perfect shades of Aurifil to quilt my project with.  

Ready to start quilting!  It's layered with my favorite Hobbs 80/20 batting of course.  The prints in this collection are very graphic so I decided to use them as inspiration for my quilting patterns.

I started with this gray and white fabric that looks like spiky branches.  What did I quilt?  Spikes of course!

For this dotted fabric I decided on large arches towards the inside blue fabric.

More to come soon!

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy