As I mentioned earlier this month, our April Island Batik Ambassador challenge was to make a baby quilt using the Accuquilt Ready. Set. Go! Ultimate fabric cutting system. There are lots of free patterns on the Accuquilt website, and I chose GO! Star Delight pattern.
I used the Icicle Batiks collection from Island Batik for the stars and an Island Batik Neutral in Custard (a light yellow with a light blue print) for the background. Cutting the fabric was a quick process using the dies. I never thought I'd enjoy a cutting system, but I'm already trying to
I'm trying my best to name my quilts this year, so this is Winter Stars. I choose this pattern because I wanted to practice my free-motion quilting. But then when it came to quilting, I had no ideas. 😊 After some suggestions from a few other Ambassadors, I had a plan. I decided to use a contrasting thread colour -- Aurifil thread #4150 Creme Brule (variegated). I (attempted) to quilt curves in the triangles and 4-patches -- definitely need some practice. Some swirls in the background 4-patches, and wishbones in the other background square.
My quilting is definitely not perfect, but I enjoyed the practice.
Thank you to Island Batik, Accuquilt, Aurifil, and Hobbs Batting for the supplies. This was a fun challenge.
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What a great baby quilt to have on hand to gift. Did you quilt this on your longarm or a domestic machine?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful batik stars. You're doing a great job on freehand quilting too!
ReplyDeleteHi Anja, your Winter Stars quilt is lovely and a perfect opportunity to practice your FMQ. If you have time, please link up to Free Motion Mavericks :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks!
DeleteBeautiful baby quilt! Your fmqing is looking good.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful, Anja. Winter Stars is a perfect name. Love your quilting too.
ReplyDeleteIt a wonderful quilt and the quilting is coming along nicely. Washing the quilt will "remove" what the critical quilter eye sees as mistakes. I too, am really branching out in the quilting and look forward to watching your progress too!
ReplyDeleteYsy for FMQ practice! Great name for this quilt. I too, am bad at naming my quilts. You have inspired me to start trying. :)
ReplyDeleteCustard fabric and creme brûlée thread—yummy quilt! I think your quilting looks great, and a baby will love it. My rule is no picking out stitches unless my tension totally fails, and washing is my go-to for falling in love with a quilt after FMQ practice. Usually I just end up with texture, and all those stitches that I think aren’t good enough disappear into the quilt.
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