Shadow trapunto quilts- playing with thread

Here is another shadow trapunto quilt from my book, it measures 25” (shadow trapunto tutorial here).

shadow-trapunto-quilts-2I love the way I quilted the background. The color of the thread was an important thing!
I remember I started quilting with dark color thread and I did not like it at all.

shadow-trapunto-quilts-3 I am glad I was wise enough to take the time to unpick all the quilting! Then I started again with white thread.

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The dense quilting inside the wreath draws attention to that area; isn’t great that you can achieve different results with the same thread and the same motif, only by varying the density of the quilting?

shadow-trapunto-quilts-4And this is the back.shadow-trapunto-quilts-8

The design is similar with the ones used on these two pillows.

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Sorry for the horrible pictures I took in 2008!shadow-trapunto-quilts-21

Have a great sewing week!

geta

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3 Comments

  1. What a wonderful work this is!! I agree that the white thread color for this shadow trapunto is perfect! I have not moved to this ‘level of expertness’ as yet in my quilting… but, I’m endeavoring to get to practice some of your super ideas and patterns more often than I have been.
    Thanks so much for all you do! 🙂

  2. Hi Geta. Wow, what works you do, just amazing. You must be sewing & cutting nonstop. Everything item you create is so inspiring. Am looking forward to checking out your Y seam hints & tips. I never liked them. And also your advise about our ruler.. can’t wait to get going. Do you have a favourite thread for all your millions of miles of free-motion quilting?
    Kind regards
    Anne Chapman.

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