The third quilt using this pattern, with the loveliest autumn colours and for this I did the echo paisley or teardrop, which I haven’t used as an edge-to-edge pattern on any previous quilt. I have used it in smaller sections of other quilts, but never covered the whole quilt and it worked well.
Phew! With this post my blog is finally up to date again. I've started to share my quilts on Facebook and neglected the blog. Now I feel much better.
As said, the same pattern as the previous one, just with woodland animals printed on some blocks. For this one, thinking of a forest, I chose the leaves free motion pattern with the odd loop to travel to the next space.
This specific pattern must be the all-time favourite for this quilter as she uses it frequently and in fact, the next three quilts I’ll be sharing are all the same pattern, just using different prints on fabric.
I again
used the free motion water motif as I felt it suited the little fish printed on
some of the fabric blocks.
Apart from beautiful, this quilt was massive. I tried to take a photo of the completed quilt but it hung over the queen-sized bed and touched the floor!
The colours
used, however, were striking with the quiet background to tone it all down.
In several blue batik fabrics, this was made by one of our local quilt shop owners and looking at the quality of her work, I wonder why she makes so few quilts.
She has all
the best machines, stunning fabric and resources available to her, but one quilt
in a year is quite a lot.
Therefore, I came to the conclusion that she is simply lazy! (sorry
Marie)
Having so
many printed fabrics would have been a waste of not only her money but my time
to try and do custom quilting. The
motifs would have disappeared, and with the blue colour and beach name, I did an
edge-to-edge water motif.
