After another lurker asked if anyone else lurks and hasn't posted any pix, I finally decided to plunge in! Here's to getting my feet wet!

Here's a few pix of the Scuba Diver quilt that I made for a friend. I collected embroidery designs for YEARS, had the fabric gathered, and then they came out with scuba diver fabric! Soo, I gave alot of thought and knew that I just HAD to put the divers on the back of the quilt instead of the tropical fish that I had intended.

This was truly my first quilt that I tackled from start to finish. My very first one was pillow squares that I purchased from Minnesota Fabrics and sewed them together. A no brain-er. But this one.... lotsa brain cells used for this one.

The background fabric was by "Blank" and was a water print. I don't know if you can see that clearly or not. I then stippled the square to add a little something extra in the exact same varigated thread. Then I embroidered the squares. I knew that I wanted to separate the squares with water fabric but it had to tie in and look right. I had this idea in my head as to what I wanted it to look like and I just hoped I could pull it off. This was and is my favorite to date and I don't dive. I even made a matching bag for the quilt with his initials and for a bonus, a matching fabric covered photo album for the underwater photos.

As a bonus because I came to love it so, I made me a scuba purse. Go figure!

Thanks for looking.

Kat

Very cool! Congrats, you have a great quilt and did a wonderful job for a First!!! Keep it up!

What a great quilt....there's so much work in this one and your fabric choices are really good. You worked with your theme perfectly! Thanks for sharing your pics....we love them!

Cute quilt!! Thanks for sharing it with us!

That is a lot of work, and well worth it. It is a wonderful quilt and what a nice gift. Like the purse and photo album cover too. Very nice work.

Very cute.

I am very impressed. I hope your friend realizes just how marvelous this quilt is.

Beautiful work. I know that embroidery is hard, especially having to change all those different color threads.

Really cool........

What a beautiful quilt!! You definitely put a lot of time in to it and the other items as well. Thank you for sharing

Very nice! Like that you treated yourself to a handbag!

Awesome! so beautiful, if this is your first, you need to keep it up and keep posting for us to see!

Wow! Great job on both!!

Very, very nice and perfect for scuba, we used to go to the warm waters every spring to dive...your quilt brings it back beautifully.

Found one last photo that might be a little better!

You have done a good job. Like all the matching things to go
with it.

Very nice.

What wonderful gifts you made. And glad you made yourself the purse.
Kat

And even a purse. Wonderful.

Fantasic quilt!...and everything else too!! great job!

Very nice. I love the thought you've put into making this one unique. You got a lot of mileage out of your fabrics too.

Darren

beautiful quilt

Great projects and well done.

I've had a few PM's. The embroidery designs are machine embroidery that I've collected thru the years. If there is any particular block that you want to know where it came from just let me know. I'll try to figure out where I got it.

Thanks for the posts and emails! It was a labor of love.

Kat

WOW! That's awesome.
Hey, I remember Minnesota Fabrics!

wet, wild and wonderful! i'm ready to learn scuba diving! great job!

Outstanding! What a truly lovely job you've done with this
Quilt.

That is beautiful.

Wow great job on the embroidery. Love all your projects.

Every scuba diver's dream. I'm sure he loves it.

Great job!