The Making of ‘Isabel’

Isabel celebrates all the ‘Isabel’s’ in my family that have come before me…..great grandmother, grandmother, mother…then me.

It was inspired by a quilting pattern I designed for in an earlier quilt, ‘Memories of Alex’.

‘Isabel’ uses a range of Tilda fabrics, ‘Cotton Beach’, and the design repeats and extends the floral pattern. Like a medallion quilt it has a centre design which is bordered by repeating images. Each of the appliqué flowers is created with lots of fussy cutting to create repeated groupings. The sashing strips have rows of fussy cut circles appliquéd onto a plain coloured fabric.
It is all needle turned appliqué on cream coloured background fabrics. By using a selection of background cream fabrics I think it creates more depth in the quilt.

The free motion quilting is designed to enhance and extend the appliqué. All the appliqué is outline quilted then fillers added to the negative space. It is quilted with a cream polyester thread., using my stationary Sweet 16.