Denice’s Granddaughter’s Indah Blossoms Quilt

Feb 21

Hello there,

I have a beautiful quilt to share with you today. Denice’s 13 year old granddaughter made this one, amazing huh?!?!

The pattern is by my friend Carolyn from Free Bird Quilting and is called Indah Blossoms. You can find the pdf pattern and template set in her shop. Carolyn has so many incredible quilt patterns, go check out her shop.

I used the 8020 comfort blend batting from Winline Textiles based out of Utah. I used a deep aqua thread for the top blue part, and my favorite Natural White Omni thread from Superior Threads for the bottom part and all the appliqué.

Denice’s granddaughter wasn’t loving the quilt after working on it for years. So my task was to add some fun quilting to it. Denice loves it, and I hope her granddaughter does, too.

I quilted my freehand Overlapping Circles design in the blue background, which adds such a fun texture to the quilt. If you’re interested in learning how to quilt freemotion, I can help you with that!! Check out my Quilting It Freemotion course. I teach 10 different designs, and you can pick and choose which designs you’d like to learn.

Here is a close up on some of the flowers and what I quilted in them. I tried to mix up the designs and add something different and unique to each one. Both the pick flowers, one pictured above and the other one below, are some of my favorites.

The orange one below is also a favorite!!

Denice and I talked about the quilting a couple of times, and then last minute I asked if I could do a graffiti type quilting in the white background. I went in a garden themed direction, with flowers, feathers and leaves, with pebbles as filler. To see a video, check out this instagram reel.

I think the texture is such a fun addition to this quilt!!

Creating such a free organic texture can push me out of my comfort zone…but it’s fun to try new things. I’ve quilted a few other quilts with a graffiti style background. They can be seen in my work gallery and on my blog.