Friday 31 October 2014

Continuing to go Round the Bend

This is voting week for the Blogger's Quilt Festival over at Amy's Creative Side. Lots of gorgeous quilts to see. Do go and join the fun and vote for your favorites. Follow the links to see my two entry posts for the Scrappy Quilt category and of course, the Home Machine Quilted category.

In the meantime I continue to go Round the Bend - but I'm getting there!

Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com

The penultimate motif is Balustrade.This one does need tram lines to travel along to get from one balustrade to the next. It's a great motif for quilting at different densities and gives a lovely amount of dark and light. This square always makes me think of an old fashioned whale bone corset!

Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com

Here is the thimble again to give you an idea of scale.

Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com

The last motif is a variation on 'Cobbler's nightmare'. I've given the 'feet' a variable slant which loosens the whole design up. It looks quite different I think and almost deserves a new name - perhaps Duel Thorn?

Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com

This motif is quite long-winded to do, but I love the effect - it works well around corners and looks good both large and small.

Because of all the binding and then sewing the squares together, there is a surprising amount of hand sewing in this project.

Here are the first two rows all joined together.

Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com



Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com


Round the Bend in 12 Squares - detail. Free motion quilting, hand-dyed cotton, art quilt, wall-hanging,Hilary Florence  quiltingworkship111@gmail.,com



Thanks for dropping by...

Hilary Florence

Please find below a list of linky parties. I may not link with all of the every week, but with some of them most weeks. Please go and have a look at some of the other wonderful quilts and quilters there.
Anything goes Mondays @ http://marelize-ries.blogspot.co.uk/
Linky Tuesday at Free motion by  the river­­­­ @ http://www.conniekresin.com/
Fabric Tuesday @http://quiltstory.blogspot.co.uk/    
Sew cute Tuesday @ http://www.blossomheartquilts.com/ 
WIP Wednesday at freshly pieced   @   http://www.freshlypieced.com/
WOW = WIPs on Wednesdays  @ http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.co.uk/  
WIP Wednesday at TN + TN  @ http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca
I Quilt Thursdays @ http://prettybobbins.com/
Really Random Thursdays @ http://www.liveacolorfullife.net/
Needle and Thread Thursday @ http://myquiltinfatuation.blogspot.co.uk/
Off the wall Fridays @ http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.co.uk/
Lizzie Lenard @ http://lizzielenard-vintagesewing.blogspot.co.uk/

17 comments:

  1. This is coming together really well :-)

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  2. The 4 pieces next to each other are wonderful! It can not be easy to quilt that design so small - well done :-)

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  3. Love the way four pieces come together! Brilliant!!

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  4. It is always a joy to see your work!

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  5. Those are very cool quilting patterns! A lot of detail.

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  6. Hilary, these are wonderful patterns! Thank you for sharing!!!

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  7. Your quilting is absolutely fascinating. I love the uniqueness of the designs and the density of the quilting!

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  8. You quilting is amazing! Thank You for stopping by and linking up with “Anything Goes Monday”. I am enjoying be a guest host and meeting so many new quilty friends. I just started following you through B/L and Email (so I don’t miss out on your posts) and look forward to more of your creations. Your site is so interesting--Love It!

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  9. Amazing work!! You are so talented!

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  10. Your quilting is always so beautiful!

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  11. Picking my jaw up off the floor! Wow, beautiful! The flow from piece to piece is amazing.

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  12. Man! These are beautiful! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

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  13. Hi Hilary I fins it hard to belie that the pieces are so small, the thimble really makes you realise the workmanship you do. Lovely lovely art work. Cheers Glenda

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  14. Hello Hilary,

    Great progress! The first one is wonderful, especially as I am now seeing it as corsets. The second one reminds me of playing cards, a combination of hearts and clubs.

    Thank you for linking up with Free Motion Mavericks.

    Love, Muv

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  15. Wow - amazing! And so tiny. Just lovely!

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  16. there is going to be plenty of viewers for this at the quilt show have so enjoyed seeing it develop and now it is completed I love it a real treat for the eyes

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