I have greatly neglected my blog lately! I found this draft from a long time ago! Better get it posted. For Christmas I actually did a lot of sewing. I made this One Block Wonder quilt for my son Eric who loves trains. It was actually finished a couple of months before Christmas.
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| This is the finished quilt. I bought 7 of the train panels and layered 6 of them on top of each other to cut out the hexagons. |
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| I placed the 7th panel into the quilt and arranged the hexies around it. |
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| Here you can see the swirly quilting that it's quilted with. My long arm quilter, Chris Bogart, lives right across the street from me so it is very handy to get my quilts quilted quickly 😀. She suggested the swirly quilting to look like smoke from the engine. |
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| It was difficult to arrange the orange hexagons so they wouldn't look out of place. A friend suggested making a star and replacing one of the triangles in the surrounding hexagons with one of the pieces. I love how that turned out. |
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| The original panel |
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| The rest of the orange hexagons were formed from the train wheels at the bottom of the panel and my husband suggested making those a track for the hexagons. |
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| Another closeup of the quilting. |
This is the second quilt I made for my Eric's fiance, Alisen. I consulted with him on the colours. The pattern is "Suburbs" by Cluck Cluck Sew.
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| I had fun choosing fabrics for the houses, doors and trees |
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| Chris Bogart did the quilting on this one as well and suggested a snowflake and swirl pattern for the snow. |
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| The quilting looks great on the sky as well. |
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| I fussy cut some of the fabrics for the doors and houses. |
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| Love the winter foxes on this house. |
