This is a quilt made for Cousin Leslie’s new grandson Oliver. The new technique was making an applique pattern from a clip art picture and using Misty Fuse instead of Steam-2-Seam Lite. This was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I would never have made it through the process without advice from Cousin Denise. She clued me in on selecting a piece of clip art and taking it to a copy store to be blown up the size for the quilt. I found Office Depot to be the best place for enlargement. I had 2 copies made per her instructions. Misty Fuse was hard to use, but the product is less stiff and has a better hand feel than a raw edge applique made with Steam-2-Seam. Finding all the fabrics for the applique was difficult, also. The background (“ocean”) was a jelly roll race quilt. The quilt would look better with some seaweed in the blank spaces (Hannah’s suggestion) but I ran out of gas for the project, so the quilt did not get seaweed corners. Oliver comes from a family of fisher-people. I hope he likes his big fish.
- Size: 50 1/2" x 65” Crib size
- Quilting: Quilted in an overall wavy line to represent water current with occasional free form fish. Quilted around the big applique fish. My rabbit signature was a poor imitation of Kenojuak’s (Inuit artist) “Rabbit Eating Seaweed.” Free form quilting. Used blue variegated 100% polyester thread (Omni-V #9006 from Superior Threads-named "Laguna"). 7 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
- Backing: Gray tonal print backing from a Superior Threads end of bolt sale. The fabric is really nice.
- Batting: 100% cotton, Winline “Back to Basics”
- Piecing and applique by Patty. Background is a jelly roll race quilt using a Kona Cotton Jelly Roll called “Overcast”.
- Pinned into frame October 13, 2018. Quilting on long arm October 15, 2018. (Patty).
- Binding by Patty. Used a dark gray print from a JoAnn’s sale.
- QC by Spencer
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Quilting Detail
Fish Head
Victoria, Marley, and Oliver
