Canada Eh?

My challenge project is completed with our most famous Canadian symbols. I wanted a simple pattern so that I could focus on the FM (free-motion) quilting, instead of worrying about it and so used most of the FM design ideas I already learned from the Building Block by Leah Day.

  EQ6 was very useful to create a simple pattern. The middle box was left empty in purpose, because I wanted to add a Canadian flag pattern, which didn't worked so well in a square. So I change that idea for another as you'll see below.

All the silhouettes were found from various websites. Many thanks go to those artistic people.  I couldn't have made this quilt in this short time. On the contrary, it would have taken me months of frustration to accomplish something similar to that. So thank you again:)

My backgrounds are in yellow/orange Batik, which reminded me of our beautiful Fall in  Canada.

 Threads can be a challenge for quilters when it comes to choosing a thread that will be nice with our quilt. Depending on what you want to accomplish with your FM quilting. A light colour thread on light fabric will not reveal as much of your stitches then if you had to take a darker colour thread. In the past, I always used threads that "blended in", with my fabric to hide my stitches, but now I love to "showcase" my FM quilting, even if they are imperfect stitches.

This was a design I found on the website and duplicated it on fabric. As you can see, some of my FM quilting is from the same design that was used in the Building Block by Leah Day. It helps something to focus on our FM when we used the same designs in another project.

My Silhouettes were fused on back of the black fabric, then cut out before fusing them on the Batik.

 Then the blocks were FM individually, then  squared them all to their final size 13" x 13" squares.

Same technique for the Building Block: Quilt-as-you-Go. I'm starting loving this alot.

After I laid my blocks on the floor for a final look, guessed who came snoozing on it. Yep, the dog!

Front

Back

Size is 39" x 39".

Another project done. Yahoo!

Let's go stash away!

Pillow Cases

Happy New Year!! Wow, time certainly flies by when you're busy quilting. Before Christmas, I rushed to finish a few projects, because I wanted to start new ones in the new year. To my great surprise (not really) I signed-up for two blocks of the month. One with Leah Day and the other one with Katja Marek, for an English paper piecing. A challenging and terrifying project for new to me.Yikes!! Also, I had fun with creating a small project with No Sewing Until you Quilt.

Those are just the beginning of my Quilting Adventure. Forget about my previous list. *laugh*. Again I'll try using most of my stash, which isn't always fun and easy to do. For sure I get frustrated and spend money on new fabric because I can't help it when my fabrics don't coordinated with each other.

What are your quilting challenges or new techniques you would like to learn this year? Or who expired you to quilt more efficiently and why?

These were last minutes Christmas gifts. What I like about making pillow cases as gifts are you can individualize them, simple to make, one the pattern fits all, and fun to give away.

 I only used what I had in my stash and coordinated the fabric. I should make more and put them aside. Maybe when I have time. *smile* Probably not.


Let's stash away!


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