Wedding Quilt for cousins Dan and Anne Marie Rovere
I worked with Dan and Anne Marie on creating a wedding quilt they wanted! We started with my usual process of looking at quilt images online. They wanted blue and purple, they liked a lighter center, and when we found a quilt image, they liked everything about it. Luckily, its available online as a tutorial video from 3 Dudes Quilting, so I watched that a few times, then dug in.
I purchased some beautiful batiks while on a sewing trip to Annapolis, MD with some pals,
then I learned this interesting technique for making this quilt, which includes, creating strata, cutting squares, layering those squares right sides together and sewing all around the block, cutting on both diagonals and opening up to these fun blocks.
I started laying out the blocks on my "design floor"
Once the quilt top was all put together, I created the back this the leftovers and some other fabric from my "collection":
Then I did something I had been wanting to learn, I went with pal Kimberly to a quilt shop in Burlington NJ to learn how to use their big Long Arm quilting machines. After a long lesson, we made reservations on the machines for our own projects, and I was able to get this big quilt ALL quilted in one afternoon!
I added a hand made label on the back
This quilt is full of love for these wonderful cousins,
Best wishes for a long and happy marriage
Peace
