Blogger's Quilt Festival: Solar Threads Quilt

I think the Blogger's Quilt Festival, a few years ago, was my first introduction to the world of quilt and fiber arts blogs.  I really enjoy looking through all of the entries each year, and discovering new blogs and people!

If you're new to my blog, welcome!

This year I also knew that I wanted to enter my "Solar Threads" quilt.  I made at as a "Project Quilting" challenge, wish upon a star.  I essentially translated my blog title into a mini quilt!  The ROYGBIV category seemed perfect for this.  I'm a rainbow-a-holic...

I've made a few "New York Beauty" quilt blocks, and found a pattern that I liked, and sewed it up (foundation paper piecing) with the some batik fabric.  I love rainbows, and wanted to reflect the way light from the sun changes into the spectrum of colors.  I also needed "thread" in the piece.

I was most excited about doing the actual quilting on this, so decided that I'd make the free motion quilting the highlighted part of it. I used some of Leah Day's free motion quilting designs and even made up a few new ones of my own.

It's one of the first time I've ever used contrasting thread to highlight the quilting instead of matching to hide it.  I must say I'm thrilled that I worked up the courage to do this.

I used an invisible binding, and purposely used an almost white backing to further highlight the quilting! This is going to be my "go-to" method of finishing these smaller art quilts for sure!! 

Be sure to check out all of the other wonderful quilts at Amy's blog!!