I’ve already taken a picture of the bear when I noticed I forgot to stitch the mouth but by then I’ve tidied my sewing room for the night and left it until the next morning.
As much as I do enjoy working on the Woodland Animals quilt I can only go that long without free motion quilting. Unlike other longarmers simply taking a blank piece of fabric and playing on it, does not do it for me. I prefer structure. I need shapes, a plan or something to work in or around and not having anything at this time; I bought a duvet cover for our bed, popped it in the wash and unpicked the sides. Bought backing slightly larger than the top and loaded it onto the frame.
I am still not any good at designing but with every new quilt a new idea comes to mind and it usually looks just fine. So for the rather blank top area of the duvet cover, I decided on doing circles – our bed is after all round.
Circles done, I started with the fillers.
Fillers completed.
When the grandkids came over last weekend I noticed grandson (2½) started playing with cars and I decided to get him a road mat. Then shopped for some cars so next time this little terror came over I would have something new to entertain him for a couple of minutes… hopefully.
The duvet cover had a band of about 8” separating the plain top part from the rest and on this, I decided to stick with the circles and just add some curved lines in between.
DIL went on a school tour with the chess kids for this weekend so we had the little ones over again. As predicted, grandson was fascinated by the mat for about 2 minutes but the cars had to stay with him all the time. Granddaughter stayed over for Friday evening and grandson came to visit on Saturday when his sis went to a playdate with a friend. So not much else happened quilt wise.
CUTE BEAR CUB!
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