Quilts in Popular Science magazine?!

Wow! This is a quilt?! What a spectacular marriage of art and science! These beautiful art quilts were created by Kate Findlay, an elementary school teacher who was inspired by images of the Hadron Particle Collider. And, she's not even a physicist! Proof that inspiration knows no boundaries. Here are a few more of her works in the Collider series:

If you want to read the article, which appeared in Popular Science, and see more of her work, here's the link:

http://www.popsci.com/science/gallery/2012-03/gallery-lhc-quilted?image=8

Finally Done!

Myah's purple bed quilt is finally finished! I loved working with these blocks and fabrics. I think it looks very "girlie", which is what we wanted.

Here is a close-up of the quilting on one of the flowerpot blocks:

I ripped out MANY stitches, because I first quilted the basket blocks with large freehand daisy-type flowers, and they just didn't look good at all. Why didn't I decide that after I had made just one, instead of waiting till I had stitched in five of them? Who knows, but I sure spent lots of hours unstitching! I think the quilting I ultimately used looks much better and does more to enhance the blocks. I quilted butterflies along one of the borders--here's what they look like on the back:

I did NOT want to ditch-stitch all those separate petals on the dresden plate flowers, so I went around them with a squiggly stitch that went much faster. I like the effect.

I used a rather puffy poly batting, which I don't normally use, but I wanted more of a comforter feel for her bed. It turned out soft and comfy! Of course, the real measure of success is that Myah loves it!