Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Stained Glass Quilt

Another UFO done! I know it wasn't on my list of UFOs but, well, I have a lot of UFOs laying around. This is my Mother's Christmas Present. Yes, I mean last Christmas. Yes, I know it is June. Technically it was all finished a few months ago ( but not before Christmas), but I decided to add a quilt label on the back.

I got the idea for this quilt from a church in Grayson County Virginia. My Mother does a lot of genealogy research, and tracked down a slew of our Ancestors in that county. There is a pretty little church there, with beautiful stained glass windows, and a few of the windows had our ancestors name's on them.
Stained glass Quilt

Stained  glss quilt

I started with a foundation fabric, and sketched out the lines of the pieces, and sewed blocks onto the foundation:
Stained glass quilt

Then I added bias tape for the leading:
Stained glass quilt



It was hard to quilt on my machine, and next time I will hire that part out. It was the first stained Glass project I've done, and I'd really like to do more. Overall I was pleased with it. And it's for my mother, so I'm sure she'll like it. Your mother has to like your artwork, it's some sort of rule.
Stained glass quilt

4 comments:

  1. Very pretty! I'm sure she'll love it.

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  2. Congratulation, this nice

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  3. This is really pretty! the black lines make the colors stand out so nicely!

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  4. Tiffers11:22 AM

    Oh I love this!!!

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