Shock Waves - Home Machine Quilted

It is time for the Spring 2015 Blogger's Quilt Festival! While Spring Market goes on in Minneapolis, MN, we get to party with the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy over at Amy's Creative Side. I am linking up this recent finish in the Home Machine Quilted category. I made this quilt to test a pattern for Yvonne over at Quilting Jetgirl. Yvonne has fabulously written patterns in her Payhip and Craftsy sites, including the one for this quilt. Her pattern is called Triangle Transparency. I call my quilt Shock Waves :) 

From picking the fabrics, to piecing, to quilting, I loved every part of making this quilt!

The quilting of this quilt was a collaborative effort between me and my husband. He is an engineer and he has an eye for art and design. When I laid out this top in the alternative layout, he looked at it, smiled and said "That is it." and then he said "It looks like shock waves." Hence the name. Then he told me that when I quilted it, the quilting had to radiate out from the center. He told me about Sacred Geometry. I did an image search and knew I had the design for the center of the quilt.

Close up of the center Sacred Geometry motif.

We then came up with designs that radiated out from the center of the quilt. 

All four of the sections were quilted with the same designs. I used threads that matched the fabric.

I also knew I wanted to accentuate the secondary diamond pattern. I did this by quilting in the triangle shapes in the negative space and then filled the triangles with designs that would continue to draw the eye outward. My husband picked the border design out of Christina Cameli's book "Step by Step Free Motion Quilting." It is called Port Holes. BTW, highly recommend this book!

Overall I think we achieved the intended effect of the quilting, my husband 'approved' the designs along the way :)

I pieced the back of the quilt with leftover fabric from the front.

Reversible quilt!

As you can see, I had a blast quilting this quilt. It is definitely the most dense quilting I have done to date. But definitely not the last! :) Thank you for taking the time to read a bit about the process of making this quilt. If you'd like to read more, my previous posts about this quilt are found here, here and here. Have a wonderful time hopping around blogland looking at all of the wonderful quilts!

If you have not heard about Amy's online quilt show, you really, really, really have to go check it out!! I promise, you will not be disappointed! Talk about inspiration overload :)

 Until next time, keep on quilting!