Monday, March 19, 2018

Strawberry Splendor

Springtime is here, and so are strawberries!


Strawberry Splendor quilted wall hanging

Fresh strawberries, straight from the farm, and oh so sweet! Let's honor this luscious berry with a beautiful wall hanging pattern, Strawberry Splendor - more details are within the post!


Strawberry Splendor 38 x 38 wall hanging pattern





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.


Strawberry Splendor background quilting







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.


Strawberry Splendor background detail quilting


















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.


Strawberry Splendor strawberry quilting with seeds



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!


Strawberry Splendor strawberry motif in borders


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: 


Strawberry Splendor quilt backside

 The quilting makes the back just as beautiful!


Strawberry Splendor quilt backside closeup

Time to go enjoy some strawberries!!


Strawberry Splendor quilt


Happy Quilting!




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16 comments:

  1. It's a beautiful quilt - I love the bright colors. The quilting is gorgeous.

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  2. We 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'.

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  3. Beautiful work as usual, Susan. What a charming table topper.

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    1. On the wall or on the table - two ways to enjoy those berries!

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  4. That is beautiful! The quilting really made it outstanding on front and back!

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  5. That is beautiful and the quilting makes it all pop.

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  6. Wow! This just makes my heart water for summer strawberries. Beautiful and bright and oh so sweet! Your quilting is the perfect finishing touch

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  7. Wow, that's beautiful! I especially love the texture that the crosshatch gives the berries.

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    1. Emily - thank you so much for the quilt love!

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  8. I just adore this pattern - just purchased it and hope to use it to teach my sister FPP. Your directions are amazing! Thank you!

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  9. Absolutely 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.

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    1. Thank 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!

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  10. I 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!

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    1. Sure did. Just outlined the flower and added a 1/4" border around the inner edge of the block.
      Thanks for stopping by!

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  11. 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!

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  12. What a beautiful quilt and your quilting.....wow!

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