We keep talking about the baby quilt I'm working on here are 11 of the 15 blocks

Those are sweet. How are you going to put them together?

lucky baby

OH! I love fairies! These blocks are beautiful! That is one lucky baby!

I have some light yellow fabric with small pink and blue flowers on it that will be sashing and borders the back will be yellow flannel. As I said they're are 15 fairies the 16th block will have the baby's birth date, weight, lenght, and time of birth. The first block was the daisy one it has her name Lalaith on it

That is so sweet! How long has it taken you to make these blocks?

Thats beautiful, what a wonderful keepsake for parents, They,re sure to love it :D

Great pictures. I think you're getting them out of your garden. Don't you just love this New York fall weather we're having.

Depending on the block between 45 minutes to 2 hours I have the harder ones left to do. When there done I will post them. I try and do 1 a day but somedays that just doesn't happen.

This was todays block I might have time to do a second today

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Beautiful.
I love it when ppl share their WIPs!
I love the designs!

Beautiful embroidery designs, I can't wait to see them all and the completed quilt :D :D :D Love the colors you chose, also :D :D :D

well I don't know how I did it but got 2 done today. Still having problems with puckering in heavy emb areas and the faces just don't quite look right

Those are sure nice! So pretty and I love the fairies.

I know next to nothing about machine embroidery, so I couldn't begin to suggest anything, but they still look good and the baby and parents will love it!

That is so sweet of you to take the time to create this beautiful quilt. I think all of your blocks look great! I love each of them. I am like Celeste, I know next to nothing about machine embroidery so sorry I am of no help. Buttercreamcakeartist,(Miranda), machine embroiders all of the time, maybe she has a suggestion that will help.

The friend I am making this for is so excited about finaly having her first grandchild. I wanted this quilt to be something speical I knew DIL loves fairies. She told me no hurry she knows I'm busy what she doesn't know is that I'm stalling waiting for the baby so I can do the speical block.

here is the pic of the backing and sashing

Great choice of fabrics, I can't wait to see it completed, she will be speechless when she sees this :shock: Be sure you have a camera handy when she gets her first look at it :D :D :D

Those are gorgeous ceannastahr! I wish I had an embroidery machine. I have no idea where I'd put one LOL, but I wouldn't mind being able to make these really sweet blocks ya'll do on your machines! Sooo pretty. :)

here is block 14 hooray only one more to do of the fairies

Excellent choice of fabric for the backing and sashing...it is very pretty. I cannot wait to see this. When is the baby due?

end of this month. I'm going to start putting it together as soon as last fairy is done then add the speical block as soon as I get the info.

They are perfectly beautiful! I can see the face.....maybe you've been working to hard?

I was thinking as I looked at the pictures that little baby will love having this to use for HER baby girl when she has one.

You are so sweet!!!

This is the last fairy. Tomorrow I will start putting the quilt together.

Aww...I think the fairy tea time is my favorite. That is so cute.

ohhhh, love the tea party embroidery, these all turned out so beautiful :D I cannot wait to see the quilt when you get it all done :D :D :D

Well heres the top done except for the block for the baby info. Talked to the gramma yesterday Lalaith may be here by end of the week. Mom is about 4 cm dailalated.

beautiful, simply beautiful............the mom will love this for sure. and the baby will love it to.great work.

Beautiful! good job!

I love it !!!! Too pretty! :thumbup:

I also know nothing about machine embroidery. But, I do love fairies and flowers. They look lovely. I'd love to have an embroidery machine. Maybe one day.

Omgosh that is so gorgeous ceanna!! She's going to treasure that for years and years. :)

By the end of the week? (Don't they usually go ahead and admit them at that stage?) Anyway, that's so exciting. Hope all goes well. :) :)

Ceanna, great job, I always have a time getting all those unnecessary threads cut off. It's too cute.

Congratulations on the upcoming arrival, she will be so happy cuddled up in such a wonderful quilt.

Oh wow, I'm speechless, this is amazing! I love the colors together. What a great sentimental gift. You want to make another one? I'll send you my address. LOL.

Ceanna that is soooooo pretty, good job :D :D :D That is one very lucky little girl, I bet this is the blanky that never leaves her side! :D :D :D

If you remain really bothered by the lack of definition in the faces. You could always use some of the embroidery thread and do a little handwork on the eyes and mouths to give them more deffinition.

Well here is the final block for the quilt. Mom and baby are doing fine. Grandma is still on cloud 9 we have hopes she'll be back to earth by the weekend.

That's just wonderful ceanna! :)

Spectacular!!! Its breathtaking! Congrats all around!! (the Fairie Tea Party is my favorite too)

Hello,

I have been doing a lot of machine embroidery like yours. The puckering is most likely a stabilizer problem. I use a paper, iron on, tear away stabilizer made by Sulky. It is called "Totally Stable". On top of the iron on I use a crisp tear away stabilizer. Your tension could also be an issue. What type of machine are you using? What size designs are you using? Also what brand thread do you use? I have had very good luck with Madeira Poly Neon.

I have the same design collection that I plan on putting up on my website. I will stitch them out on my Ellegante and post some of the pictures. I have been trying to start a business selling embroidered quilt squares. My thought was to provide the ability to include machine embroidered squares without having to own an embroidery machine.

Let me know how you make out.

Cheryl