I'm glad I took this photo because it reminds me I need to remove Yes I individually stitched down each letter. The variegated thread was Sulky Blendables, 30 wt. So I thought I was going to do an edge-to-edge quilting design on the embroidery machine, but I didn’t necessarily want it to go through the lion…Then I thought, it’s so small, why not FMQ? Again with the I can’t help the overthinking everything. And it’s the smallest one I’ve ever made - 30.5' x 34.25'. I just started slapping the applique pieces on the one-yard piece of fabric before trimming the interior section to the desired size.so…the fabric I had purchased for the borders is now the backing! Hey, it’s a baby quilt. The quilt orientation and size were not what I originally intended. I played around with the layout of the words. I used a font called 'Sweet & Salty' at a size of 150 points sounds large, but it isn't. I had the song 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle' going through my head, and those are the words I put on the quilt. I finally got to a place that I was happy with the design, and got moving on it.

But I’m committed and we will see what happens! It took me a few hours to complete the first lesson. We had our first session and wow, talk about overwhelming! I am somewhat tech-savvy but she raced through that 90-minute+ session and I got to the point where I just sat and listened and observed. I mentioned in my last post that I had signed up for a digitizing and design class with Sarah Vedeler. Which brings to me to where I was a month ago. I consider it an achievement that I actually went to my dental appointment that Friday instead of rescheduling. I didn’t have any downtime during the holidays and with work being what it is, I just got to where I could not move, think or process.

By Friday I was overwhelmed and ready to throw in the towel and just piece something together.Īnother thing about that Friday and Saturday-I guess I was exhausted. The size of the shapes from the die did not correspond well with my ideas, so I went to Electric Quilt and played around it still wasn’t right. I purchased a few pieces of fabric and then I started the process of getting the ideas out of my head and onto paper and fabric. The Hubs was ecstatic because he had not seen Sarah since the wedding-he adores her and remembers when he would occasionally rock her to sleep! I asked Sarah if she had plans for the nursery and she said she was going with a safari theme.Įnter the overthinker: I immediately thought of an Accuquilt die I have-the zoo animals-and started playing with layout ideas. The December evening when we celebrated our youngest’s birthday brought the unexpected delight of running into Sarah at the restaurant while waiting for our kids to arrive. The Hubs and I were lucky to witness her wedding to her beloved 5 years ago, and I was thrilled to hear that a baby was coming. Some dear friends of ours have a darling daughter whom we have known since she was a snowflake.

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