medallion quilt

End of a Quilting Blockage... Maybe from Fret Not Yourself

Serve the people at the bottom. The people at the top don't need your help.

~Yuri Kochiyama

Quilting

I lost my quilting mojo this fall somewhere between family and medical. I've been looking through old sketchbooks, rereading books about quilt blocks without interest. Finally, reviewing old photos struck a spark.

Anna Maria (Horner) Perry designs gorgeous fabrics and had an exhibit at Quilt Festival a few years ago. The quilts highlighted her then new fabric line {remember those coneflower prints?} and several intrigued me. I saw simple blocks, large shapes to utilize large scale prints, and of course ...

added by Ann 2 days, 19 hours ago. under anna maria horner , kaffe fassett , medallion quilt , monarch butterfly

Faith from Wendy's Quilts and More

There's nothing like an exhibition deadline to make me hurry up and finish a quilt.

This one all started when I saw an offcut of the beautiful Stone Flower centre in the remnant bin at my local quilt shop. I knew I had to take it home and and turn it into something pretty.

There's always a good selection of medallion quilts in Kaffe Fassett's books so I perused my little library and came across the Blue Square Dance quilt in Quilts in the Cotswolds.

I didn't fancy making the final border on the Blue Square ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 1 year, 8 months ago. under blue square dance , faith quilt , kaffe fassett , kaffe fassett quilt , medallion quilt , quilts in the cotswolds , stone flower

Second Border on Bramble Blooms QAL from Fret Not Yourself

Earth’s crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,

And daub their natural faces unaware.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quilting

I quilted and mailed the quilt my granddaughter put together while visiting last month. Just in time for her sixth birthday. How exciting to see another generation of quilters in our family. It took most of the evenings. My remaining time involved moving bits and pieces around on BB1.

Yes, Audrey suggested applique in the first border. I didn't do ...

added by Ann 1 year, 8 months ago. under atul gawande , bramblebloomsqal , designing a border , medallion quilt , reading , scrap quilt

Final Border for Bramble Blooms 1 from Fret Not Yourself

Life, though it is a gift, is not a privilege.

~Ross Gay

Quilting

Audrey's linkup encouraged me to push on BB1 but it's still not complete. Here's the second round, a pink zig zag. All those points took way too much time and didn't all turn out as well as my usual work. But I'm pressing on.

These are leftover Crossroads blocks from a class with Sujata Shah. {There are still more. Sheesh.} I love them as a border but it may be too bright.

So I made a few more. {And this is how ...

added by Ann 1 year, 8 months ago. under bramblebloomsqal , improv quilt , medallion quilt , scrap quilt

Stone Flower from Wendy's Quilts and More

Hello!! I'm back and I've got a finished top to show you.

I'm calling it Stone Flower because the fabric in the centre is the Stone Flower wide back by Kaffe Fassett Collective. Here's how it evolved over a short period of time back in April 2023.

Another wide back by Kaffe Fassett Collective

mixed in with Cactus Flower in blue

I took elements of the Blue Square Dance pattern from Kaffe's Quilts in the Cotswolds book and used them to expand on my fussy cut Stone Flower centre piece. But I stopped when I ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 1 year, 11 months ago. under blue square dance , kaffe fassett , kaffe quilt , medallion quilt , quilts in the cotswolds , stone flower

Maria’s Medallion 9, 10 from Virtual Quilter

I don’t see a great number of medallion quilts anywhere, but they are a great way to make a square quilt for double and king size beds. I have to admit the I don’t design a lot either, and this is the last two designs in my one and only current project file which feature medallion quilt designs.

My favourite of these two designs is the second one.

added by Virtual Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under applique and pieced quilt designs , applique block designs , applique border designs , medallion quilt , medallion quilt designs , pieced borders (Comments)

Medallion Quilts NEQM from Humble Quilts

The American Quilt Study Group had an amazing exhibit of medallion quilts at the New England Quilt Museum. I'm sharing some of them today.

From the NEQM:

AQSG members were challenged to select and study an individual “medallion-style” quilt. Each participant either chose to make a small replica or create a new quilt using the original as inspiration. The NEQM Genre Gallery features 25 of these medallion-style quilts along with photographs of the original inspiration quilts, most of which span the 19th century. Included are personal statements about what the quiltmaker learned during the process and their reflections on ...

added by Lori 2 years, 1 month ago. under medallion quilt , new england quilt museum , reproduction quilt

Maria’s Medallion 7, 8 from Virtual Quilter

Make one block, add borders, and you have a medallion quilt.

I love the second one.

added by Virtual Quilter 2 years, 2 months ago. under applique block designs , applique border designs , centre block , medallion quilt (Comments)

Serendipity - At the Center of It All from Ann Quilts

The title of this quilt describes the inspiration and process of its design, and also a great way to approach Life.

Serendipitous - occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

I've discovered that I like working on more than one quilt repair job at a time. It keeps things more fun! So I had fabrics for two quilts on my table and decided that I really loved the combination - a deep golden yellow and a bright magenta.

One quilt was a string quilt, a memory quilt with fabrics from a mother's blouses. The other was ...

added by Ann 2 years, 2 months ago. under art quilts , decorator fabrics , medallion quilt , serendipity , velvet

My Medallion Too 13, 14 from Virtual Quilter

Interesting.

Start with a square block, add triangles to each side, then add triangles to each side again, add a border. A simple concept which can lead to some rather complex designs.

I like the second one.

added by Virtual Quilter 2 years, 11 months ago. under applique blocks , centre medalion , medallion quilt , my medallion too , pieced borders (Comments)

Fans for Midori and Madame from Virtual Quilter

Many years ago I started drawing fan blocks, and decided to make a fan quilt, and couldn’t decide if I should use pretty florals or Japanese style fabrics. The solution was to draw a lady holding a fan, though she finished up with an umbrella instead.

However, I went shopping and found a lovely collection of Japanese fabrics, so had to change the overall look of the quilt, especially the centre block

All of the design work was done on paper, with pencil so I could rub out most of it from time to time, but eventually the quilt ...

added by Virtual Quilter 3 years, 6 months ago. under applique , applique fan blocks , applique people blocks , applique quilts , medallion quilt (Comments)

My Medallion 9, 10 from Virtual Quilter

I haven’t made many medallion quilts, but have loved every bit of making them, especially the bit where I could change the design a little in each round … and sometimes changing it completely. The most special one was a Round Robyn … several of us made a central block, then it was passed around for others to add borders. Another started with a house block, and then followed instruction to add a path, a garden, and a fence.

I liked the idea of reinventing a block to use it in each applique round, with pieced borders separating them. I love ...

added by Virtual Quilter 3 years, 10 months ago. under applique blocks , central medallion , medallion quilt , my medallion too , pieced borders (Comments)

Round Robin Medallions 11, 12 from Virtual Quilter

Oh, so pretty!

Oh, sew pretty!

My favourite of the two is … mmmmm … the second, but it is oh, so close!

Love owls … and here is a lovely quilted one.

added by Virtual Quilter 4 years, 2 months ago. under applique blocks , applique borders , medallion quilt , round robin medallions (Comments)

Finished! Rise Above Quilt from Fabrics 'n Flowers

So happy to share (another) finished Rise Above quilt! I made my first version of this pattern last winter as

added by Sharon 4 years, 4 months ago. under fabric , finished quilts , medallion quilt , rise above quilt along , rise above quilt pattern , rise above sew along , sampler quilt , september sewing spectacular , star quilt , uppercase fabric (Comments)

Maria’s Medallion 3, 4 from Virtual Quilter

Very dainty florals … and I like them.

I love flipping and turning block designs to see what happens, and most of the time I love the results, including the two designs above.

added by Virtual Quilter 4 years, 5 months ago. under applique borders , applique florals , maria's medallion , medallion quilt (Comments)

My Medallion Too 7, 8 from Virtual Quilter

Looks old fashioned, and I like it.

Different colours, still old fashioned, but I like this one better even if it looks as if it is missing the binding.

added by Virtual Quilter 4 years, 7 months ago. under applique and pieced quilt , applique blocks , central medallion , medallion quilt , my medallion too , pieced borders (Comments)

Focus Print Quilts, Medallion Quilt, & Gardening from caledonia quilter

These are the BEST quickie type of quilt. Choose some gorgeous fabrics and add a border or two.

They make lovely lap quilts, sofa throws, bed coverlets, or tablecloths.

I studied this one at great length. I've never made a medallion quilt even though I've been quilting for 25 years.

It looks pretty straightforward, with large piecing. I'm definitely giving this a go...

Gardening...I've been eating fresh kale, that lived over the winter. The crazy thing is, it showed up all by itself last year - I didn't plant it. Sometimes it pays to be ...

added by helen-mary 4 years, 8 months ago. under asparagus , food , garden , gardening , kale , longarm quilting , medallion quilt , quilt , quilting

You Don't Know Until you Try! from Humble Quilts

My thought was to have something similar in the center of my bird sampler quilt.

Odd shapes are always difficult for me to paper piece.

I persevered and actually thought it looked pretty good.

I cut the pattern out for the center

It wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.

Then I printed the frame pattern, made templates, and sewed them together and the plan was to applique it to the top of the block. I knew it was the moment of truth.....

It started out pretty good....

Uh, but went south pretty fast! lol

I thought I pressed ...

added by Lori 4 years, 9 months ago. under compass block , medallion quilt

Triangle Medallion - Island Batik Ambassador December Challenge from Creatin' in the Sticks

The December Challenge for the Island Batik Ambassadors is

"Medallion Quilt"

and

today I am excited to share my quilt

Triangle Medallion.

We are to make a medallion quilt which is all about a center block and borders

using

Island Batik fabrics.

I went in a different direction and may have stretched the challenge a bit.

I took my inspiration from an article in the Fall of 1995 magazine, Quilt, called Corn and Beans.

At first glance, the quilt in the article looked like a medallion quilt made of half-square triangles set on point. After reading I learned the quilt ...

added by Carla 5 years, 1 month ago. under accuquilt , island batik ambassador , medallion quilt , quilts

Medallion Quilt, A Quilty Finish, Jenny Wren, Free Patterns, from Canadian Needle Nana

One of the things I love this week was getting a photo of a wren. I've often caught sight of them down by the pond because I think they like the heavy shrubbery on three sides. There is a meadow there as well and loads of grasshoppers which I know wrens are fond of. However, it was right in front of my kitchen window that I managed to grab two quick shots of this little guy while he was checking out the decaying plants.

In the third shot I took he was a complete blur.

This was my redworked ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 5 years, 2 months ago. under birds , dreamy hearts quilt , embroidery , free patterns , lovely likes , medallion quilt , redwork

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