Embroidery Flower Quilt

The moment I saw the pattern for the Embroider Flower quilt I knew I had to make it!  The pattern is by Tilda's World and is free on their website. The kit was from Fabriculous and is all made with Tilda Solids. I started working on it at a quilt retreat in October.  It was a lot of cutting 2" squares and I used the Fusible Grid which made the job easier and more enjoyable.  My Wonderclips really came in handy!

Once I finished the top I knew that the best quilting design for this one would be cross hatching.  Since any ruler work on my longarm cause pain in my shoulder/back I knew I had to pace myself and only quilted 30 minutes at a time with lots of break. It was on my machine for 5 days but only took about 7 hours to complete.  I know this is one I can not quilt for clients but it is very doable on a domestic machine.

Next decision was what thread colour to use.  I debated about using MonoPoly but then asked my friend Desley what she would recommend.  She had quilted one and used a blue/green Rasant thread so I looked through my So Fine colours and chose #511. 

I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I had to take it slow and steady as the intersections were quite thick using the Fusible Grid and I was getting some thread breakage at those spots.  I was really glad I didn't go with the Monopoly as the thread breakage would have been a lot more.

This quilt is now hanging in my quilt studio so I can enjoy it everyday. 

But that's not the end of the quilt story.  I had an idea that I could cross-stitch this design as well using the quilt pattern.  So I bought a teal 14 count cloth and matched up all 46 fabrics in the quilt to DMC floss.  I taped the fabric number to the floss for easy reference.  

I put it into a 5" hoop.  Looks so tiny compared to the quilt. 

Not sure what I'll work on next...but think I better start some Christmas baking today!