Baby snoopy quilt - FMQ

My great nephew Errol was born in March 2013 in Toronto. His baby snoopy quilt was the ideal place to practice the quilting designs learned in Sew Cal Gal's 2012 FMQ challenge.

The large centre rectangles are the jesters' hats design.

 The yellow slashing is a feather plume with a spriral end.

 The two inch square blue and green four patches are a free hand spiral.

 I used yellow thread for the feathers, blue for the Jesters' hats and spirals.

The backing is 100% cotton baby blue sheeting that is sixty inches wide.

 

The feathers' centre line was marked using a sewline ceramic pencil and a flexiruler.

 

 

 When I make feathers, I stitch the centre line first, then one side of feather plume. 

Next I stitch back down the centre line, make the spiral end of the stem and stitch up the remaining side of the feather.  There are other ways to do feathers, but this method works well for me.

 

 

 

 The inside white border is heart shaped leaves.

 These are quick, easy and fun to stitch.

 

 

The outside blue border is a running spiral design.

 

 

 

I completed the binding, embroidering baby's name, my initials and the year.  Now, I'm off to make a matching toy bag to pack the quilt in before mailing it Toronto.  Happy quilting all.

Seth's Zoo Animals Quilt is finished!

This quilt measures 62.5 inches by 55 inches, large enough for a toddler bed.

The white slashing is quilted with heart shaped leaves using Marathon polyester thread that looks and feels like quilting cotton thread.

The binding is 100% polyester rip stop nylon.

Instead of handing stitching the binding in place, I used a three stitch zig zag with variegated thread which gives the binding a lovely texture. 

 My initials and year.

The zoo animal print in the middle was stitched with 100% polyester variegated thread using the jesters' hats design.

 The back side is pieced lime green, red and yellow.

For more photos and details please check out my Seth's quilt on my blog. November's challenge is spirals..my next quilting project.

Happy stitching all.

October fmq - name and fillers

This month's quilting expert is Teri Lucas.  She provided a very interesting challenge, stitch your own name in the block then fill the block in using a variety of fillers and threads.  Teri suggested satin fabric.  However, I didn't have any satin readily available, so I did the practice sandwich on white cotton/linen fabric with cotton batting and a Schmetz 90/14 embroidery needle.

I quilted my daughter's name and did not mark the fabric.  Her name ended up being off centre and not straight.  So on my fmq sample quilt I marked my name with a Sewline ceramic pencil.

It was good fun trying different threads with each filler.

The blue pebbling is 100% polyester embroidery thread from Marathon threads in Winnipeg.

 I stuck in the top left corner of the red grid lines and ended up making what looks like a little roof.

The green heart-shaped leaves are 100% cotton quilting thread.

 My first attempt at sewing nautilus shells.

I love the neon orange thread, it makes those flowers look happy.

 

Fellow quilters, did you enjoy this challenge?  Would you quilt your name on your quilts?

August Challenge - Jesters' Hats

This month's teacher is Wendy Sheppard.  Her tutorial is on free motion quilting jesters' hats as a unique filler design.  I started doodling jester hats.  At first, it was really hard to fill the entire page without getting stuck in the middle somewhere.  In total I doodled 40 pages before stiching this design out.

I stitched out a practice piece to ensure the tension was good top and bottom.

I used Rainbow 100% polyester variegated serger thread in the needle and bobbin.

I found it easier to fill the space evenly by starting in the corner of the quilting space rather than the middle.

 

This is the back side.

 

 

 

Happy quilting all!