Between my daughter and myself having a stomach bug, I am surprised with how much quilting I got accomplished this week. For the month of May I have been striving to finish two baby quilts so that I can finish my sister-in-laws queen size wedding quilt by June 21st. EEK!! So far I have stuck to my goals and finished one and hopefully will be finished with the other baby quilt early next week.
Just a little history about my quilting background. I have always had people in my life that are creative. My biggest influences are my grandmother and my mom. My cousin is also an amazing quilter! With all the talent on my family tree I was deemed for some artistic trait.
Despite my mothers pleadings I have never attended a class. She always reminds me this when we are using the rotary cutter, kindly reminding me that "in the old days" you had to take classes. I feel that there is so much information on the web, why take classes! Thus saying, I refer a lot to my mother and YouTube, lol.
Right now I am into panels! I love them! I have done patterns, but I prefer to make my own designs.
Pictured below is the finished baby quilt that I made for a dear friend. It was actually supposed to be a larger quilt but I decided to keep it to simply a panel.
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| Finished quilt |
Below are some close up shots of the quilt.
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Below are some shots of the current quilt that I am working on. I'll leave some mystery so that I'll hopefully be able to share more next week! :)
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That is all for today. I hope you enjoyed looking at what has been keeping me busy in the late nights. I have begun to sketch out my quilt that I want to enter in the state fair this year. Please send suggestions. I have only been doing the free motion quilting thing for a few months but would love to keep doing this.
I am linking up to Leah Day's Free Motion Quilting Project.
Have a great weekend!
Holly
Beautiful baby quilt. I appreciate the quilting in the animals! Well done.
ReplyDeleteI love how you have enhanced this panel with just the right choice of fmq patterns.
ReplyDeleteYou've picked up fmq so fast! It looks great too.
ReplyDeleteAs a new quilter, i've always dismissed panels and opt for patterns (or better yet kits, since I freeze up when it comes to choosing fabrics). You've given me lots to think about as far as panels are concerned. I like the idea of being able to enhance the picture with FMQing. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone else. You've really enhanced the panels with your designs. What a good idea to use them for baby quilts as well as a place to practice quilting.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone for your kind words! I look forward to sharing more of my panels!
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