An intermediate post about Abby's Quilt

Well, I got it all laid out:

And sewn together:

Now, I have to go buy some of this (I'm going to use cotton this time, more expensive, but also more breathable and easier to sew, or so I hear):

And lots and lots of these:

And I need to track down some more of this (or at the very least something that is the same pink color):

I did the flowers on my embroidery machine, the designs once again are from Designs by Juju. I made the hill appliques on my sewing machine. I ripped strips of varying widths and sewed them together. Lucy's quilt is going to be very similar, but with purple and yellow daisies and a different striped print. I'm using a twin bed sheet for the backing and planning to use cotton or perhaps wool for the batting. I'm going to be sewing designs onto the strips, which I'll post when I get done.

Seth's Quilt

Well, I finally got Seth's quilt done. Sorry about the perspective on the picture.

Now that I'm done with it, I really like it. It went through several iterations. At first I was going to put animal print squares where the green jungle print squares are, it just didn't look very good, so I went with the jungle print. After I got all of the stitching done around the squares to quilt the front, batting and back together (referred to as "stitch in the ditch" by quilters), I realized that there was way to much room for the batting to move around and clump. So, I sewed around each of the animals, and then I wanted to do something on the other squares to help keep the batting in place, but also keep with the theme of the blanket. What I finally came up with was footprints. I found pictures of the animals footprints on the Internet, made stencils, traced them onto the quilt and then sewed around them. Here is what the zebra footprint looks like on the back of the quilt:


There are two of each footprint on the back, Zebra, monkey, lion, tiger, jaguar and elephant. Under Seth's name, I put his footprint. The animal appliques I made with my embroidery machine and got the patterns from Designs by Juju.

Apart from taking care of the baby, my major hold up was lack of skills and direction. I could have called it quits after stitching around the squares, but I'm glad I didn't. I think the quilt is awesome and I sure hope that Seth likes it. I'm not to happy about the stitching, but I'm learning and if I stay too concerned about perfection, I'll never get anything done.

Up next: Abby's quilt! This shouldn't take as much time because I learned a lot doing Seth's quilt and I've already got it started (it was something to work on while I was being indecisive about the direction I wanted to take with Seth's quilt).