Rainbow quilt with crumb squares

This quilt top has been sitting in a box waiting to be combined with its batting and backing for a little bit.  I really enjoy making crumb squares and for this one I made dark and light versions of all six of the rainbow colours.  It makes the little scraps disappear fairly quickly and mostly evenly when you take some out of each bag!!  

My batting is thin cotton and the backing is a medium weight cotton twill in aqua which worked well with the colours in this quilt top.  I used a rainbow thread and a wavy decorative stitch to do the rows of quilting along both edges of the horizontal seams. I have learned to go back and forth instead of always starting on the same side to keep the quilt balanced as it is easy to get things shifting in the direction of your lines of stitching.  

I used a bright and fun striped fabric for the binding with a much smaller version of the same wavy decorative stitch!!  Therese

 

Mother's day card featuring a large floral basket, ribbon and a layered greeting

Mother's Day is around the corner and I am late getting my cards out!!!!

This one has a fun circle background (SU) to which I added a brown ribbon diagonally before adhering it to my green card front.  I slipped the beautiful floral bouquet image (reused card front) below the ribbon after adding four rows of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel.  I added a short piece of coordinating ribbon to the brown one and then added the layered scalloped circle greeting over it.  

Therese