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feline fanatic 07-28-2013 08:09 AM

Sunshine666 Baby boy Irish chain with Giraffe quilting by Feline
 
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Sunshine666 is going to be a great aunt and I work with Grandma (Sunshine's sister). They know the baby will be a boy and grandma told me the nursery theme is giraffes. Awesome! I love giraffes :)

Sunshine made an irish chain in all blues so I quilted continuous curves in the 9P chains and 4 different giraffes in the same dark blue thread so they would show. I used coloring book pages from the net for the giraffes. I picked 4 different giraffes and repeated each 3 times, with 1 of each reversed so it was facing in the opposite direction. I can't pick a favorite they are all so cute! But I really like the walking one and the running one.

After quilting the giraffes and CC in the chains, I had some pretty big open unquilted spaces that were more than 4" apart which was my batting minimum. So I switched thread colors to match the background baby blue color and quilted continuous feather leaves (some call them molar feathers or Asian feathers) They blended in beautifully and just added a bit of texture so the giraffes still stand out. I had loads of fun with this quilt.

Techy stuff. The dark blue thread is Filtec Cairo cotton. The baby blue is Isacord. Bobbin thread is magnaglide prewounds in white (also from Filtec) and batting is Legacy 80-20 blend

Here is the whole quilt
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Here are closeups of each of the giraffes
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And of course it wouldn't be a post by me without the gratuitous back shot :D

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Teacup 07-28-2013 08:15 AM

Oh, I absolutely love the quilting. It brings everything together! GREAT job!

joyful1 07-28-2013 08:22 AM

What a great boy quilt. They will love it!!!

wolph33 07-28-2013 09:05 AM

awesome quilt,beautiful

Grandma Bonnie 07-28-2013 09:10 AM

The quilt is beautiful and your quilting is absolutely gorgeous!! I love the giraffes!! Great job all around!

crafty pat 07-28-2013 09:21 AM

You did a really great job on that quilt. Just perfect for a baby.

Tweety2911 07-28-2013 10:02 AM

Quilting is terrific on this beautiful quilt!

kareno 07-28-2013 10:32 AM

awesome - that is one lucky little boy!

Quilter 65 07-28-2013 01:03 PM

How clever and so pretty. That is just one beautiful job of quilting!

Tartan 07-28-2013 02:00 PM

​Great quilt and quilting!


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