Tuesday, October 21, 2014

10 Minute Block


This pretty quilt belongs to Dawn. It is the Ten Minute Block and you can watch a tutorial here if you are interested in making one of your own.  Dawn used 5" squares.


Dawn told me that the recipient of this quilt was a really girly girl and left the rest up to me.  I tend not to think of filling a quilt with feathers, but this one was asking me to.  I decided to repeat the to open diamond shape where the four squares meet and add feathers around that.



One of the joys of being a longarmer is watching the quilt begin to transform before your eyes.  I always like to step back and make sure I am happy with my design choices before getting too far along.  I had a good feeling at this point!


 I used Quilter's Dream Puff batting and a medium blue So Fine! thread.  I did add one line of stitching in the 3d diamonds so they didn't stand up too much.



7 comments:

  1. Love this 10 minute block quilt Lori....your quilting really changed it.

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  2. Oh, what a beautiful quilt! And the quilting is fabulous!

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  3. Gorgeous quilting. I hardly recognized the block as the Ten Minute Block. It really does look very girlie.

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  4. Love the feather and the echoing diamond.

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  5. Very, very pretty! I'm sure the little girl is going to love it.

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  6. Very pretty - I love blue and yellow together, and your feathers are beautiful. I'm sure the recipient will be ticked pink. (or blue and yellow!)

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  7. What a nice quilting theme for this!

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