Quilting by Judith - Sharing my quilts and bits of my life.
Here is a birthday block for a guild member. She loves Sunbonnet Sues and even makes tiny miniature ones by hand and sells them.
I again used the window fusing applique method but with the blanket stitch on my machine. You can get such a neat look with this. It's going to be a great quilt with so many variations of "Sue"!! Interesting how the colors vary with the photos. The actual color is like the top block with a yellow background. Happy Birthday, Linda!
This is the latest quilt for Jake - to stay at Nana's house. I saw this quilt made up at Intown Quilters a few months ago and thought it was so cute! So, at Shop Hop, I purchased the kit and got it finished last week.
I did machine applique with a small zigzag stitch, using a lightweight cotton thread. I do a technique that is sometimes called window fusing. I first trace the whole pattern on Wonder Under (in reverse), then trim out the inside, leaving about a half inch of Wonder Under all around the inside edges to bond. I do this to keep from having the quilt be too stiff from all the fusible.
This quilt pattern is free if you go to Michael Miller Fabrics and look under free patterns. Or, here is the actual down link. You will see it in totally different fabrics but you can download the file and choose whatever you like.
Here is the back of the quilt. I had the center portion left from the kit and the stripe had been bought for a project and not used so it worked out perfectly. Here is a tip I suggest: If you have just a short amount of fabric to be used at the top or bottom of a quilt, I prefer to have a larger bit as opposed to it just coming to the edge and only having an inch or two show on the end. This way it looks more like it was planned and not like you ran out of fabric at the end and had to add a little piece.
