Horse panel quilt

I bought this horse panel at Joanne's on Sunday. I came home and started auditioning border fabrics to make it bigger. The first 5 pictures of this post.

I bought this white with berries for the back and thought I could do the border as well but it was too dull.

I liked the red a lot but I didn't have very much of it. The black print was a clash.

I though this one just popped. Winner winner -Chicken dinner.

It is quilted with computer and free motion here and there.

I free motion quilted the mane.

The face and body is a wavy hair computer design.

Enhance the bow with a little red and black thread.

The back.

I put some wood grain detail in with just straight lines with black thread.

Before quilting.

After quilting. Approximately 53 x 62 inches.

Sweet Christmas snowman kit done

Here's some confetti trimmed from my half rectangles.

Here are some of my 300 plus triangle units.

The kit came with 2 bloc-loc rulers to trim these units up perfectly. 

My design wall layout.

Here's a shot of all the triangles sewn together and the Snowman panel fused to the background. Then I used black thread to sew around the panel and finally trimmed away the fabric from behind the snowman so most of the background wouldn't show through the snowman.

Work in progress. Lots of work to crop out the facial features. I put snowflakes in the cheeks. I quilted the background first with a snowflake swirl that you can't really see because the background is so busy. Then I went back and customized the snowman.

Here is the completed quilt before binding.

 The binding came in the kit and I completed the quilt with the binding in 18 days!!

The custom quilting took me the longest. 

The back of the quilt with some of the words from the panel and the label that came with the kit.

I love how his hat turned out. I figure out something new with every quilt I sew. I had to figure out how to quilt the hat because it was too big to fit on the machine bed. 

Close up of hat design.

Here's his cute face.

Ear muff and scarf. I free motioned the scarf.

I love the sweater look of this design on the mitten.

Squiggle on the scarf.

The back. The snowflakes were rather small. They don't show up very well.

Baby Quilt for Barrett

Close up of name quilted into border.

Lucy's Crab shack fabric line. I used one jelly roll plus extra for border and scrappy binding.

I straight stitched a quarter inch on each side of the seam.  FMQ kite tails in border. 

Summer quilt work in progress FMQ

I am still working on the FMQ of this quilt. This is the border. Click to enlarge if you'd like. I really need a better system so the quilt isn't dragging and getting caught on the edges of my sewing table. I am looking into making a larger surface area to keep the drag from happening. I saw something online where the lady stacked large styrofoam sheets the the correct height and cut out an area for the sewing machine bed. It looked fabulous and cheap to do. I need to find it again. I should have bookmarked it. Live and Learn.