Hummingbird quilt finally finished
12-29-2012, 05:37 AM
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She is going to love this quilt. I really like the way the batik worked with the hummer. Good idea! And I really like the minky backing for softness. I give you credit. I made a couple of lap quilts with a version of minky....kind of a shag, and it was a devil to work with. I had to tack and baste by hand before I could bring it near a machine. Great work!
12-30-2012, 06:41 PM
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Ohhhhh... That's so pretty!
I have been working on this hummingbird quilt for about a year. I gave it to my 82 year old mother in law for Christmas. She loves hummingbirds and has feeders on her porch and pinwheels in her flower pots, so I just had to have pinwheels in the quilt. I designed this as I went and it sure was a math challenge to get everything to fit. I used minky on the back to make it nice and soft for her. The hummingbird and all the flowers and vines in the center medallion are hand appliqued. I quilted it with a pantograph, but I did the medallion using free motion quilting - my first attempt at free motion. I wished I had tried free motion quilting before trying it on this quilt, but I ran out of time... I finished it Christmas eve. Thanks for looking,
I think your MIL must be very much loved by her DIL.. and that's a beautiful thing, too.
Blessings
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