For quilters coming over from the MQG, welcome! I hope you have a chance to take a look around my little blog including some of my recent finishes and my third annual mystery quilt called the Meadow Mystery starting next month. You can also find me over on Instagram as MeadowMistDesigns.
For the quilting, I quilted the star pieces with dense back and forth quilting and quilted the background using Wild Quilting as taught by Christina Cameli (which I learned in her Craftsy class (not an affiliate link)). In Wild Quilting, a bunch of different quilting motifs are combined together. I quilted State of Being on my home sewing machine.
“State of
Being” is a modern take on a traditional Ohio Star block. The design begins with one full star block in the
corner of the quilt and becomes increasing fractured as the design extends into
the negative space of the quilt. Both
the design and quilting represent our complex and sometimes chaotic state of
being.
The quilt was made using Kona Cotton Solids in white and shale and a print from the Doe collection by Carolyn Friedlander, all from Robert Kaufman.
For the quilting, I quilted the star pieces with dense back and forth quilting and quilted the background using Wild Quilting as taught by Christina Cameli (which I learned in her Craftsy class (not an affiliate link)). In Wild Quilting, a bunch of different quilting motifs are combined together. I quilted State of Being on my home sewing machine.
The relatively small scale in the quilting and the matching threads give the background texture and interest. I used 50 wt Aurifil thread in 2024 (white), 2610 (gray), and 1154 (orange) for the quilting.
The background alone took over 25 hours to quilt (most of the pebbles are about a 1/4" to 1/2"). You can see some more of the quilting from the back which features a newsprint fabric from Tim Holtz:
This is one of my favorite quilts I have made, thanks for taking a look!
I want to give a special thanks to Paige of Quilted Blooms and Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl for their super pattern review skills!!
I want to give a special thanks to Paige of Quilted Blooms and Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl for their super pattern review skills!!
