Strawberry Splendor is fairly straight forward - it uses 11" paper pieced berries, appliqued flowers, and pieced ric rac chains. The berries are easy to paper piece as there's no seams to match, no points to worry about, and as a special bonus, all the fabric piece sizes for paper piecing are listed for you - no need to figure it out yourself! Put it all together and there's sweet homage to everyone's favorite, strawberries! Just divine!
Along with those big berries, there's beautiful quilting to enhance the charm of this quilt. As in the preview last Wednesday, the background has straight line quilting, which changes direction throughout the quilt, but stays the same direction around each strawberry.
When viewed up close, there are groups of three perpendicular lines evenly spaced in the background, adding a bit more interest to the negative space.
Simple outlining makes the flowers and leaves stand out. The strawberries have diagonal crosshatching with a little bar at each crossing, giving the impression of a seed.
Gracing each red corner border are motifs of strawberries and leaves, enclosed by micro-stippling to make them pop. Definitely a lovely addition to the strawberry theme!
If you, too, wish to honor spring's best berry, the Strawberry Splendor pattern is now available at Etsy.
A few more pics to show before you leave:
The quilting makes the back just as beautiful!
Time to go enjoy some strawberries!!
Happy Quilting!
It's a beautiful quilt - I love the bright colors. The quilting is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWe must be thinking alike-I have a strawberry runner I am hoping to get done soon. And this week and last one of our stores has had them on sale. Of course they are so much better picked right from the field. Your wall hanging is so 'sweet'.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work as usual, Susan. What a charming table topper.
ReplyDeleteOn the wall or on the table - two ways to enjoy those berries!
DeleteThat is beautiful! The quilting really made it outstanding on front and back!
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful and the quilting makes it all pop.
ReplyDeleteWow! This just makes my heart water for summer strawberries. Beautiful and bright and oh so sweet! Your quilting is the perfect finishing touch
ReplyDeleteWow, that's beautiful! I especially love the texture that the crosshatch gives the berries.
ReplyDeleteEmily - thank you so much for the quilt love!
DeleteI just adore this pattern - just purchased it and hope to use it to teach my sister FPP. Your directions are amazing! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely luscious. Reminds me of their perfume while sitting in a row of them at a U-Pick farm. The Quilting really enhances the design, especially on the back.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Paula! If I had been willing to drive 1 1/2 hours, I could have had strawberry fields in the background, and baskets full of berries!
DeleteI love this quilt!!! Did you really only go around the center flower to make it lift up? It almost looks 3D and coming up and off the quilt!
ReplyDeleteSure did. Just outlined the flower and added a 1/4" border around the inner edge of the block.
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This is such an amazing quilt! I love how the red strawberries just pop right off the white! The quilting is perfect! Thank you so much for linking up with To-Do Tuesday!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt and your quilting.....wow!
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