At a very enjoyable baby sprinkle (apparently this is name du jour for baby showers for second babies...) I finally gave my friend the quilted wall hanging she had requested for her baby boy's nursery.
There had been some guidelines (most of which I listened to :)) which included - "greens and browns please...and woodland animals, no, jungle animals...no...woodland animals. Definitely woodland animals." So I started making it before she could change her mind. Fortunately she had ordered a decal with woodland creatures so it now seemed unlikely...
Green and brown can be very chic but also a little muted for this colour obsessed quilter so I took a lead from the aforementioned decal and threw in a bit of orange and blue too. Just to liven things up a bit.
The main "picture" fabrics I chose were from the "Bluebell Park " line by Kate and Birdie. I love them so much!
I had bought some of the beige park themed fabric along with all the supporting fabrics while I was in Melbourne in anticipation of this project but discovered that I wanted more colour and cute stuff so broke up my charm squares from the range and used all the cute and colourful ones from that too. The green background fabrics are both Riley Blake pirate fabrics and I just love the Japanese apples! Such a zing of orange.
This photo was taken when I thought it was finished. More of that anon...I quilted it simply in the ditch and used a fusible, lightweight batting as it is going to be hung on a wall rather than used as a cot quilt, so the lightness and slight stiffness of that sort of material was perfect for this project. I also added a hanging sleeve.
I sat around admiring my handiwork for a while (as you do) and came to the conclusion that a) it needed something else and b) I was bored and wanted a hand sewing project. So lead by the naive charm and texture of the prints I embarked on some hand quilting detail.
This was the result, not particularly clear and unfortunately with me in it because I forgot to take a photo at home!
Basically I hand stitched in orange embroidery floss around each of the orange diamonds, which really lifted the look. Overall I was really pleased with this little item, it was a lot of fun to make!
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