Gran of 6, thanks for the larger picture. It was hard to see in the avatar. That is so beautiful. Makes me want to snuggle up by a fire except of course it is going to be in the 90's here today:)
I bought the template for twisters a few days ago. I like how it looks in your colors and with the silk.

Hi, Here is a link to some of my quilts made out of silk dupioni. The first ten are silk, the rest are cotton. I use fray check on all the cut edges. The applique ones were turned edge applique and it is a lot harder to get a smooth edge than with cotton. I had to outline embroider the edges to make it look smooth. It is pretty easy to do paper piecing with silk dupioni. I think Amish style patterns look nice and even when you use a traditional pattern it looks really contemporary with silk.
http://s1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc483/sunbury3/
I hope this works! I just learned how to link something.

Thank you Grann of 6.

Thank all of you, so much for all the info on silk. It is something that I have put on my wish list, but never knew where to find out more about it, till now. Thank you again.

Great quilts Sunbury. Were they hand or machine quilted?

They're machine quilted. I have heard of people hand quilting silk dupioni but I find it's too loosely woven.

I am making a crazy quilt out of dupioni silk, satin, brocades and velvet. It is a long project but I will try to show some pics later as I finish some blocks. I saved silk from previous projects and, of course, I had to buy more than I can ever use so I will probably end up making two quilts. My sister would love that! But for now, one is enough as it is a lot going on in each block. But what fun.

Sunbury, I just looked at your quilts again and they are amazing! Are they all your designs? I keep trying to decide which is my favorite but can't do it--too many are my favorite. Thank you for posting the link.

My avatar is made of dupioni silk entirely. I used a very thin fusable on the back of the silk before I cut my pieces. After that I didn't do anything differently than I would on any quilt.

Gorgeous jewel tones!

How was your top quilted, By hand or by machine, and were there any issues with either method. Have you washed the quilt since its completeion? If ya did was it dry cleaned, hand washed, or some other method?
Thanks
Mikki

Thanks Grambi, they are almost all my designs. The log cabin and one other were adapted from antique quilts. The embroidered alphabet is from a pattern.

I pieced and quilted it on my home machine. I didn't have any issues doing so. I haven't needed to clean it as it's hanging on my sewing room wall and it doesn't get dirty there. Don't know how I would clean it if needed, sorry.

Wow! Those are beautiful! I am not into so much work. I am not that proficient at quilting yet to try something that complicated. Now that I have the long arm I want to be able to try some art quilts using fabrics and threads to lend texture. Not for a while though.

I used the fusible batting on the back of my silk and then just zigzagged around the edges of the squares so I could embroider on them. If you aren't doing any embroidery you can skip this step.