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!
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Size is 39" x 39".
Another project done. Yahoo!
Let's go stash away!
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