I stupidly chose a tone on tone white that unless you sat in the sunshine, you couldn't tell right side from wrong side.
By day four I had this much accomplished........
which isn't bad, considering how much "unstitching" I did.
I started with fabrics from a layer cake that were left-over from another quilt -- that has yet to be quilted. I'm working on it! The centre is cut 4" as I said, the inner borders are cut 2" and the outer are cut 2 1/2"...........those are from the layer cake. The centers are the light fabrics. I took a day off and then went back to it on a Saturday. Now we have a completed top
I designed the backing while watching television one night. Both the fabrics were in my stash and I asked the artist in the family to draw up the one flower, so I could put it once or twice or perhaps three times on the back.
I posted on FB one Saturday morning, that I wasn't going to post anything until the quilt top was done. Well, heck if you make the top, you may as well make the back and then I cut the binding.
6 hours later it was done!
I have asked my oldest granddaughter if she will draw up one of the flowers from the fabric. I would like to make some to add to the back of the quilt. My plan is to place them in the large brown area. I have some "old" fabric that just about matches the coral fabric on the front.
I will just use fusible web and a blanket stitch to hold them in place. The machine quilting can do the rest.
The binding was also in the layer cake. I thought a strip around the edge would look pretty darn good. It is cut, labelled and in the box with the rest of the quilt.
I measured the backing this time, so when it comes to cutting the batting I don't have to get the tape out and measure again.
The top is about 40 x 40" so it's a good size for a toddler.
Well I waited for my granddaughter and she finally said......."why that flower"...... so I did my own.
The backing went from "ho-hum" to "wow". Okay, maybe not "wow", but it could be from "drab" to "fab".
Take you pick. I'll let you decide ......
I posted on FB one Saturday morning, that I wasn't going to post anything until the quilt top was done. Well, heck if you make the top, you may as well make the back and then I cut the binding.
6 hours later it was done!
I have asked my oldest granddaughter if she will draw up one of the flowers from the fabric. I would like to make some to add to the back of the quilt. My plan is to place them in the large brown area. I have some "old" fabric that just about matches the coral fabric on the front.
I will just use fusible web and a blanket stitch to hold them in place. The machine quilting can do the rest.
The binding was also in the layer cake. I thought a strip around the edge would look pretty darn good. It is cut, labelled and in the box with the rest of the quilt.
I measured the backing this time, so when it comes to cutting the batting I don't have to get the tape out and measure again.
The top is about 40 x 40" so it's a good size for a toddler.
Well I waited for my granddaughter and she finally said......."why that flower"...... so I did my own.
The backing went from "ho-hum" to "wow". Okay, maybe not "wow", but it could be from "drab" to "fab".
Take you pick. I'll let you decide ......