I did some quilting for my mom. She made her version of Aunt Bea's Parlor. The main difference on her version is the border and mom decided to use brighter coloured fabrics. It looks cheerful!
My mom has been doing handwork for a long time. Over the years she has amassed a collection of different coloured embroidery threads. These blocks are all hand embroidered using her own colour choices. Here is a close up picture of one of them. Mom's stitches are very pretty. She uses a fancier stitch than what is called for in the pattern and it really makes a difference as to how pretty it looks.
We chose to do an all over edge to edge design, as the fabrics mom used were too busy to really show off any custom quilting. What we ended up with, was a pretty feminine feathery design that softens the look of the quilt a bit, but that does not steal the show away from the pretty baskets.
A side view of the quilt helps you to see the texture that the quilting gives to the quilt. The pattern is called Feather Grande by Bethanie Nemesh from Digi-Tech, now known as Urban Elementz.
When I quilted this quilt, I used a 60 weight thread. I didn't want the thread overtaking the basket designs. This way when the quilting went over and through the baskets, the thread was thin enough to sink into the embroidery threads which are thicker, instead of laying on top of them and pushing the embroidery down.
The above close up shows how the quilting provided the texture, but does not hide the embroidered basket. Anywhere the thread passes over the embroidery, you can't tell. It almost looks like the quilt was quilted first and hand embroidered on top.
The quilt turned out quite lovely and the most important thing is that my mom loves it! It is her quilt after all.
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