Sunday, September 15, 2019

Quilting Floral Triangles (Formerly Know as Sweet Surrender)

First of all, I've never like the name Sweet Surrender. I think a quilt name should reflect the quilt somehow and Sweet Surrender just doesn't do it for me. I've renamed my quilt Floral Triangles, not a fantastic name but it truly reflects this quilt.

Next item, the disclaimer I need to post so I don't get bombarded with questions about the pattern.

Because someone always asks, I no longer have the Sweet Surrender pattern. I do NOT know where you can buy the pattern.  Sue Cody is the designer and owns the copyright on the pattern. She is no longer releasing it for publication. As far as I know, it is not available anywhere. Sorry, but that's the way it is so please don't ask me where to buy the pattern. Do your own search.


 Now, onto what this post is really about, quilting Floral Triangles!

I finished the bottom floral border. I really love the way this border looks, the colored Sulky threads look lovely. The stem and the inside of the leaves are quilted with a variegated green thread and the outside of the leaves is a more bright spring green.

The yellow flower centers were a problem. I've tried several different yellows and have finally settled on a brownish-gold thread. So, the bottom border has 4 different center colors until I finally found the right one. No one will ever notice though. I know, the colors don't show in this picture, I'll try to do better next week.

Did you notice the cloth on the back of the quilt? That's a cover I keep over the quilt when I'm not quilting. The room has windows to the south and west. Also we have the screened windows open during the summer, this way no dust lands on the quilt.


The pictures are a little dark, I took them in the early morning before the sun was very high. There's too much glare when the overhead light is on or the room is flooded with sunshine.

I need to get back into the fall/winter routine of quilting every evening but that hasn't happened yet so the quilting is going slow for now. 

I had said in the earlier post about this quilt that I used a Hobbs Tuscany Collection wool batt for this quilt. Connecting Threads has all their batts on sale now for 30% off, including the Tuscany Collection, just in case you're interested.

Linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Oh Scrap, Bambi's Show & Tell MondayMonday MakingDesign Wall MondayBOM's AwayMoving It Forward, WIPs On Wednesday

17 comments:

  1. Lovely stitching on this quilt Gretchen... Happy Sunday to you! Kathi

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  2. Oh Gretchen! The flowers and leaves and stems are just gorgeous! I love it! The diagonal lines going through it are prefect. Beautiful work, as always!

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  3. Oh your lovely quilting stiches with the colored threads looks marvelous! I always order my batting from Connecting Threads. I was really surprised at their fabrics. It's nice to see Jo Morton and Kathy Schmitz lines now being offered.

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  4. I love your stitching. I hope you can get a picture sometime that shows the colored thread, but I know that it isn't always easy. Nevertheless, this is gorgeous.

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  5. Such beautiful texture... love the photos that show the stitching design so well!
    How fun to quilt with coloured threads!
    Enjoy your hand stitching today!

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  6. I just ordered a wool batting from them this morning. Your border is just beautiful! So inspiring.

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  7. The quilting on that border is amazing. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

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  8. Floral Triangles is a great name for this quilt! Moves it away from SS! Your quilting is so beautiful as is the quilt and I do like the way you changed the border! Hugs

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  9. Your quilting is wonderful. Just curious -- do you quilt the leaves/flowers and then do the cross hatching? i suspect that is the only way to do it.

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    1. Yes, I quilt the vine first then the leaves then the flowers. The diagonal lines in the border are last.

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  10. So beautiful! The colors, the stitching, everything about this quilt!

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  11. Good for you, renaming your quilt! And your stern words about the pattern made me giggle... But it’s a beauty; that’s why everyone keeps asking for the pattern! Make an ugly quilt next time and then I promise, no one will ask for the pattern. :-)

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    1. I have already had quilts turn out like I didn't envision that I didn't like, I don't need to intentionally make an ugly quilt but then beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I know when I was appliqueing these blocks several years ago, people kept asking me where they could get the pattern even though I said in my post it was no longer available. I decided while quilting, I would make the announcement in large print.

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  12. The Border quilting is beautiful.

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