I am so happy to share these picture of my version of the Helix Quilt. My friend Danelle approached me months ago about a trade (photograpy for quilting) and I jumped at the chance–she is a wonderful local photographer as well as a long time friend. In full disclosure, although I spent much much longer making this quilt than I anticipated (and she was quite patient in her waiting), I love the finished product.
As a bonus, Danelle has a friend who owns a long arm, and K graciously let me use it to quilt this one quilt. The quilting took forever, but I think it adds a lot to the finished quilt. I quilted pebbles in the white diamonds, a large paisley pattern in the pink and aqua helix, and a loop-de-loop in the surrounding white negative space.
I machine bound the quilt in a lovely pink print that I could have sworn was Tula Pink but was actually this Lila Tueller Santorini print. Hurray for finished quilts and happy friends!
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Oh hooray! I’m thrilled to see this beauty finished.
this is absolutely beautiful!
Oh, gosh, I love this quilt!!! It turned out so beautifully, Katie!!
a picture is a treasure forever and so is this quilt. love the scrappy mix of fabrics and the quilting detail, a true labor of love.
Lovely.
This is a wonderful quilt. What a great pattern.
Absolutely gorgeous–great pattern, very nice work! Rose
it looks so pretty! I too get scared when I can pull something like that entirely from my stash.
But happy too.
Beautiful quilt! I love it on the bed! And I too love doing trades for photos!
It’s beautiful! I agree–stash shopping can be a little crazy. I was looking through mine last night and honestly found some stuff I didn’t even know I had.
What a pretty quilt! No worries about your stash, I’ve seen some photos online that make me feel ok about mine!
Beautiful! I made a Helix quilt a few years ago and loved it! You did an awesome job! : )
I really like it.
very cool! I like the weaving effect and the quilting is so nice….I love pebbles.
It turned out so well! What did you think about using the long-arm? Had you done that before? I am so anxious to get to try it out – I keep thinking about trying to rent time on one, but decided to try to see how well I can do FMQing on my machine after watching Angela’s Craftsy class and reading her book first. (And it so happens that I have a TON of things to practice on for 100 Quilts for Kids, though I know I’m not going to finish all of them by the 15th. I spent all day yesterday on them, and made a cute little EPP hexy panel for one that turned out super cute…now I just need to make the rest of the quilt and backing.) So many quilts, so little time!
This is so pretty Katie. You did a beautiful job on both the piecing and the quilting