This week is Spring Break, and I've made progress on my latest commission. The T-shirts in this quilt are new -- purchased specifically for use in a lap quilt. I believe there are nine T-shirts (some had usable logos on front and back).
The central panel (above) isn't large enough to form the finished quilt, so I decided to pull out the embroidery module for my sewing machine in order to learn to use it. After lots of trial and error, I ended up with this:
Oops...I mean this:
I knew even before I had finished spelling out "Horned Frogs" in machine applique that I wanted the words to spill over the side of the quilt.
By the way, I constructed the remainder of the quilt top at a retreat at Our House in Milford. It was a pleasant, productive evening, and I look forward to returning to the facility.
Unfortunately, I don't have a nice, pretty photo of the quilt before I basted the layers together with safety pins. Therefore, the final quilt design looks rather ragged in the pic below:
As usual, I am doing the quilting on my sturdy Bernina. I do free-motion quilting and haven't used a template or drawn out the design before I sit down to quilt. The view below is of the back, so you can see the quilting more clearly.
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