Q129 – Moon Over Bayshore – Quilt

Good Day,

Andy and I would like to introduce our newly completed queen size quilt and bedspread, Moon Over Bayshore.  This is our 129th quilt.

Here is the original draft of our design.

We began the thoughts and workings about a year ago when we were approached to make a custom bed spread/quilt. And of course it had to include the full moon.

The final draft design, the colors, and the choice of Sew Batik fabrics were made and finalized this past February. The construction of the Moon Over Bayshore is a pieced design on our drawing transposed on to strips of muslin. This quilt is composed of 4 layers: the top; muslin; batting; and the backing.

The dimensions of Moon Over Bayshore are: Width – 80” (203 cms) and Length – 90 ½” (230 cms).

The design of the quilting is a dense configuration to highlight the moon, the night sky, the girders, the buildings, and the water reflections. All quilting was done on our Longarm and our Domestic machines. The thread is YLI brand.

Follow the progress and updates of our work at the following posts –

April 25 - My Quip – A New Quilt on the Way – Moon Over Bayshore

April 26 - My Quip - Moon Over Bayshore - Question/Answer 

May 4 - My Quip – Moon Over Bayshore – Progress Update

May 17 - My Quip – Moon Over Bayshore – Update – Top Completed

More images –

And the back –

Moon Over Bayshore has been delivered. And its new home is in Tampa, Florida. Success…

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Moon Over Bayshore – Update – Top Completed

Good Day,

Guess what? All strips for our new quilt Moon Over Bayshore have been pieced and sewn together.

Here's my original drawing -

and our top - Moon Over Bayshore.

Some more images of our progress -

Max has to supervise.

Now comes the cutting, squaring off, and framing. Then the formation of the quilt-wich. Now I will be designing the quilting and then Andy will be loading it to our Longarm. We will be using both table top/domestic and Longarm sewing machines.

The top looks fantastic.

Follow our progress up to this point with the following links.

My Quip – A New Quilt on the Way – Moon Over Bayshore

My Quip - Moon Over Bayshore - Question/Answer

My Quip – Moon Over Bayshore – Progress Update

Feel free to contact us if you have questions, comments, praise, thoughts, ideas, or if you would like us to commission your special quilt or wall-hanging. Please email us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Moon Over Bayshore – Progress Update

Good Day,

Progress on our new queen-size quilt, Moon Over Bayshore continues. 16 of 38 strips have been pieced.

Andy and I are amazed with what we’re beginning to see.

We’ve begun to sew the strips together. And pictures/images do say so much more.

Please feel free to ask, comment, question, and pass along your suggestions and ideas. Feel free to emails us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Moon Over Bayshore - Question/Answer

Good Day,

Andy and I just received a question.

"I just saw your recent post. Thanks for sharing your process. One question. I saw the muslin strips and they seemed to be sewn together vertically. Do you take the strips apart, cut each strip apart and then sew the final fabric on to the pieces of muslin—then sew everything back together. So, you would lose a few inches from the original design size…..sort of like paper piecing?" - Carole Lyles Shaw

In this case, Moon Over Bayshore, the strips are cut vertically at different widths. (The widths are totally up you.) They are then sewed together to create the canvas, in this 38 strips...in others as many strips as we decide the approximate wide of the final product.

Then the picture/design is drawn on the canvas. At this point the piecing fabrics are determined as to what will go where.

Next the fabrics are cut and pieced to the strips as determined.

Once all strips are pieced they are sewn back together again.

We are not losing any of the original design/drawing size.

That's how I came up with the original, (to us), concept of piecing and drawing using strips. It is a combination of strip piecing, drawing, and piecing.

Our Cosmo's Moon was created in the same way. It is funny that a lot of people assume that we are appliqueing.

Thanks for the question, Carole Lyles Shaw.

Please feel free to ask, comment, question, and pass along ideas. Feel free to email us at Quilts SB

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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