Liberated Quilting Challenge Pictures

"Winter Journey," my first AAQI Priority Quilt!

Here are the pictures I promised you yesterday of my first AAQI Priority Quilt for the Liberated Quilting Challenge.  I even got out my light box so I could take some nice photos for my records.

It took a while to finish, really a lot longer than it should have.  I was challenged by how to attach the wolf.  I wanted to fuse him down, but do you think I could find my Wonder Under?  I ended up using some very lightweight fusible interfacing on him so he wouldn’t fray.  I wanted the fraying on the background strips, but not on him.

I blanket stitched around the wolf , using dark gray embroidery floss, and then used light gray floss in an outline stitch to make him stand out from the background a little more.

I’m pretty happy with how it came out.  I really like the wolf image.  I think he’s going to show up again in some future quilts.

AAQI Priority Quilt back

I even pieced the back.  I need to register it, but I”m going to wait til I have a couple more done and register them all at once.  I already have an idea for the next one!

Barn Dance quilt top for the Hopes and Dreams Challenge for ALS. I used painter's tape to tape it to the wall for the photo. You can see it at the top! The quilt stayed up long enough for me to snap the picture before it fell off the wall.

And I finished the “Barn Dance” quilt top this morning!  Well, not quite.  I managed to sew the top border on upside down!  I’ll have to pull it off and sew it down again in the morning.  Meant to do it this afternoon, but I forgot about it til I saw the picture!

“Barn Dance” will be donated to the Hopes and Dreams Challenge for ALS when I get it quilted.

Baby quilt ready to quilt

This baby quilt has been banging around in my closet for a couple of years now.  I made it from directions in a nine-patch book by Blanche Young.  I don’t have the book anymore, and I can’t remember which book it was either!  It has a backing and batting.  All it needs is quilting, which I never did, for some reason.  So it’s in the line-up now.  My step-daughter and her hubby are going to have a baby boy soon, so it will go to her when it’s done.

I never did make a baby quilt for my step-son and his wife when their daughter was born a year ago.  So I’m going to use the little four-patches I made yesterday to make a big-girl quilt for Nora, since she’s already going on 13 months!  I spent this afternoon cutting out pink squares to go with them.  I’ll put the four-patches on point, and alternate them with the pink squares.

When I get Nora’s quilt top done, I’ll have three tops to machine quilt.  I’ll just line them up assembly line fashion, and straight line quilt them, using the tutorial provided by Jacquie at Tallgrass Prairie Studio.

Once again, I spent the day working on quilts, sewing in the morning, and getting my next project organized and set up.  It was overcast and cold with snow on and off all day, so it was a great day for quilting!

Tagged with: AAQI • Hopes and Dreams Challenge for ALS • Liberated Quilting Challenge • machine quilting • straight line quilting

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