Longarm Quilting Spotlight - Twin Sparkling Cider Quilts

These two quilts were pieced by my friend Sasha for her twin girls' birthday.  Sasha used a fat-quarter friendly pattern called Sparkling Cider and chose two different fat quarter bundles for each quilt.

This first quilt (above) I quilted with a free-motion flower pattern.  I saw the quilt after it was bound and went through the wash. The relatively dense quilting puckered up and gave the quilt a lot of texture -- exactly the feel we were hoping to achieve! This has been one of my favorite quilts to quilt so far, simply because the "blooms" pattern flows in such a nice rhythm.

This second quilt I used a Baptist Fan pattern, again mostly wanting to give the quilt texture in the open spaces without detracting from the prints and piecework.This pattern is a little more technically challenging but satisfying in a different sort of way.

Sasha did a lovely job piecing both of these tops for her girls. She's currently working on Pow Wow for her youngest boy (one of the most adorable kids ever).

 

Avignon by Emily Taylor for Riley Blake Designs

This collection is new in the shop, and it is just lovely.  There's a nice blend of crisp blues, yellows, greens, reds, and oranges -- my favorite is probably the houndstooth.  You can find all 18 prints in the shop.
The folks at Riley Blake also created this very pretty churndash pattern to highlight the Avignon collection. Again -- churndashes -- my favorite! The pattern is free, and you can download your own copy here.