Friday, June 27, 2014

Glitzy Windows Quilt

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This is Yvonne’s quilt and the pattern is called Glitzy Windows from Pine Tree Country Quilts.  It was purchased as a kit ( found here) from Cindy-Rella’s in Regina, SK.    The material is Stonehenge  White Christmas, that comes in silver and gold by Northcott. 

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I used a new pantograph called Snow Winds, it was a very large scale design which is great for keeping the quilting light as the backing is a white Minkie.  

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The quilt is made with half gold and half silver fabrics so what do you use for thread?  I choose a Superior Threads Highlights #795 which has a metallic shine.  It looks really nice on both colors in the quilt and I like to use this thread color when quilting quilts that have a lot of metallics in the fabrics.

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I took pictures of Yvonne’s quilt at two different times of day and I wanted to show you the difference this can make when taking quilt pictures.

This one was taken at 9am when the sun is lower so you get a nice shadow on the quilting, but you don’t see the piecing  very well.

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This picture was taken at 1pm when the sun is shining over top of the quilt so you don’t get a lot of shadows making it harder to see the quilting and the fabric colors are washed out a bit.    But I get those pretty sparkles in the water at this time of day!  :)

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6 comments:

  1. Hi Kathy, this came out beautiful!!

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  2. Love the soft colors! Very nice!

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  3. That quilt is absolutely gorgeous, as are ALL the quilts you share on your blog. (Can you tell that I enjoy your blog A LOT)? The quilting on this piece looks absolutely perfect. It appears that there are some very talented quilters in northern Manitoba.

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  4. Love the texture! The stitching motif is so perfect.....like you said, open and airy!!! A beautiful finish!!!

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  5. What a beautiful, sparkly quilt!

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  6. It really is pretty and I love that panto.

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