Thread Changes, Galore!

I am about 15 hours into the thread painting/quilting of my fused garden quilt.

It took me about 6 hours to arrange and fuse the hundreds of little pieces to the batik background.

I am enjoying the thread painting now, but it is pretty labor intensive.  And all the thread changes are a real pain.

But the results so far are wonderful!  I am really liking it!  And I’m only about half done.

But the other half, the top half, is lots of background, so should not take as long, I hope!!

I have included lots of bugs and snails and some birds and some fairies, too.  This will be a great “I Spy” quilt for little kiddos, someday!!

So, waddaudink so far??

Garden Applique' Quilt

I’ve been making over my son’s old room into a guest room.  We got rid of his old twin bed and replaced it with a king bed and I made my first king quilt to put on it.  I hung my Orange Slice quilt on the wall above the bed and my original chartreuse Four Squared quilt is draped over the headboard.

I have a nice blank wall between the windows in there… which made me remember a garden applique' quilt I started at a guild retreat years ago that would go well in there.

So, I dug it out and have started building the design… fusing the many pieces on the background… adding more pieces here and there. 

Once I have it all fused, I’ll layer it with the batting and backing and the fun part can begin!!  I love to thread paint!! Woo hoo!

And with all those pieces to stitch down and on, Yogi will have lots of time to get some quality snoozing one in the studio!!

So, what are you working on now??