Floral / Wedding Set #40

Description

($61.00 value)

This elegant set includes: Wedding Bell Swag 15” border, “Floral Medallion” whole cloth centerpiece 14″, and Rosebud Striped Border 6” w/ Little Red Rose 4”.   You’ll see it stitched on the gold satin quilt which I call “Golden Wedding.”   

Other patterns shown in the layout possibilities can be purchased separately if you like.  They are:

Red, Red Rose 8” border,  Floribunda Bouquet 11” or 15”, Wedding Day 11” pictogram, Little Ferns 4” border, Fiddle Ferns 11” panto.  I’ve also incuded a sheet with sizes and options required for various size quilts.

Let me tell you about the Golden Wedding quilt.   As I drew and planned these patterns I imagined a beautiful white wholecloth quilt stitched in gold.  I bought White cotton sateen and went looking for a gold color for the back.  That was hard to find.  I finally settled on a gold shantung.  When I got home and spread the shantung on the rollers of my machine, it reminded me of my mother’s old drapes from the 70’s!  Horrors!  I couldn’t put THAT on the back of my beautiful quilt.  I noticed that the fabric was satin-y on the wrong side and determined to use that side.  To make the gold thread more prominent on the white fabric, I ran 2 threads through the needle at the same time – a gold metallic and a gold colored cotton/poly. (I often do that when I use metallics for more pronounced color.) When I finished quilting it the white side was lovely, but the shiny gold side was Spectacular!  It became the “Right” side of the quilt!   My friend Mildred quilted up a little pillow to match with the “corner”of Wedding Bell Swag.