It is always a surprise and joy to be asked to finish a quilt from a male quilter. Audie has one of the very best eyes for color and design and so we were surprised to hear that this quilt was his first major one.
Audie found his fabric at a wonderful little fabric store called The Stitch Lab (http://www.stitchlab.biz/) who referred him to us. His colors and design really evoked those of the traditional Amish to us and in keeping with that genre, we chose to do a very linear and minimalistic treatment in our quilting. Using our APQS Millennium longarm machine, we inscribed a 1/4 inch echo line inside the nine patch design with a highlight of the center square. That design was then repeated in the empty intermediate blocks. The setting triangles also had a 1/4 inch outline. The borders were treated very simply too. Just straight outside lines with a 45 degree triangle running between them. Although it looked wonderful from the front, it was even more spectacular from the back where the replication of the design became really apparent.
Audie loved it. We loved helping to enhance this quilt and felt privileged to work with such a talented quilter.
Susan
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