Throwing Snowballs At The Castle Wall
It's a hand quilted finish!
48 x 63
The center block is called Castle Wall and finishes at 21 inches. Back in 2014 I had this grand idea that I would use my little collectiton of Valentine themed fabrics bought over the years on clearance after many Valentine's Days to make a Castle Wall quilt consisting of 12 Castle Wall blocks. So in 2014 I made one block. Then in 2018 I made two more blocks including this one. Then in 2023 as I was evaluating UFOs and ran across the three blocks I finally decided my 2014 grand idea of a Castle Wall quilt was not meant to be so I made three different medallion quilts.
In 2023 I framed the Castle Wall with a little solid pink border and made it the starting block to a medallion quilt. Since the Caste Wall block had purple, red, pink and black in it I pulled out mostly Valentine fabrics with those colors.
Then I decided to throw some Snowballs at that Castle Wall.
I alternated Snowballs with black and white corners.
Then I needed to add a little length because I usually prefer to make rectangluar quilts. What better to add for a border than a couple of hearts and some roses!
Then as you can see I big stitch hand quilted it all with black perle cotton #8.
It has a pieced backing.
And it is bound with LOVE!
FYI - the other two Castle Wall quilts:
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
I received a box of treasures from Nann yesterday. And, woohoo, it included a big bag of postage stamps (PS) - 1.5 inch fabric squares - so I can continue on with a couple of PS UFOs!
14 comments:
Such a lovely quilt, Cathy; great back story to this one...Just in time for Valentine's Day too:))) Nice work hugs, Julierose
Beautiful quilt & the backing compliments it beautifully!
What a wonderful series of castle block medallion quilts this is becoming! Love your hand quilting - it adds SO much.
This is a wonderful quilt! So pink and beautiful, and I love the name.
Love the names of this series -- and the quilts are beauties.
How nice to have a Valentine's quilt ready for Valentine's Day. I like all three of the quilts that started with Castle Wall blocks.
What a great design and a great quilt finish!!!🩷
You highlighted the valentine fabrics well with your design. Great center for the quilt. I love that you hand quilted it.
Such beautiful colours in this, I love it. And loved reading the story too. You must be keeping this one for yourself, surely?
PS. I have my Valentine's quilt on the bed for the month of February, bitter sweet this time as Robin is no longer here, but he is forever in my heart.
Brilliant!! and who doesn't want to throw snowballs at a castle wall - Love it!
Fantastic use of your three Castle Wall blocks! This is a new-to-me block. Keep up your beautiful creations. Can’t wait to see your summer gardens! Beth in AL
Another fabulous finish! I enjoyed the backstory and love that binding!!
Stopped by to visit and spied this lovely treasure you finished! I love how the castle blocks turned into 3 different quilts!
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