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Laura’s Fairy Wildlife Quilt

I love the designs Laura used for her quilt.  They are defnitely fantasy designs with just enough reality 🙂  that’s the way I like my Fantasy!

From Laura:

Howdy,  Just wanted to share a picture of the quilt I’m working on.  Of course the highlights of the quilt are the unique embroidery designs I have been in love with since the first day you posted them for sale.  They are; Fairy Wildlife, parts one, two and three. BFC 1856, 1871, and 1894.  They are wonderful!  I decided to use colored squares to represent land, sea and air animals, green, blue and light blue.  They are all Michael Miller Fairy Frost fabrics, including the copper colored fabricI used to separate the squares.  I actually had all the fabric- yeah for stash building.  I knew someday I would find a use for it.  I still have the backing to put on, { I had to go buy that, bummer}, and the binding to do.  That will be copper, like the trim.  Also I want to give a shout out to whomever it was that thought up “Quick Bias” fusible 1/4 in bias tape. What a time save!  Wish me luck on finishing the quilt.  Thanks a million for the wonderful designs.  My quilt label will give gratitude To BFC Creations for their digitizing of these great designs.

The quilt pattern is my invention.  AS you know, 6 of those 18 designs are horizontal, and 12 are vertical.  That in itself was a challenge. Add to that 10 of one color background, 5 of another and 3 of a third color and it took me a while to figure out placement.  Before I did any embroidery, I cut my fabric pieces larger than I needed, not knowing exactly what I wanted to do with them.  The embroidery designs are 5×7 inches and the fabric pieces were at least 8x 10 inches.  The fabric was too pretty to cut off and throw away, so I came up with the idea to frame the designs with the bias tape and use the whole piece of fabric.  Great idea but hard to execute- lots of measuring and almost exact placement- to make it all line up.  After the fact, I decided it would have been much easier to sew the squares together first, then place the bias tape all at once.  Who knew?  Live and learn.

BFC1856 Fairy Wildlife

 

FC1871 Fairy Wildlife Part2
BFC1894 Fairy Wildlife Part3

Betty Ann’s Lace Alpha A

This is our free Lace Alpha letter A. The remaining letters are also available to purchase.  I wish all reviews were as detailed as yours Betty Ann!  Thank you…Suz

Hello Suz,

Thank you for introducing your thoughts on the Lace Alpha.

As I watched the stitch out of letter A, I was impressed by detail used in this design and the beauty of the finished design.

I used medium tear away stabilizer in my hoop and floated the top layer material.  For the first colour (white) I slowed my machine to 700 spm,  the second colour (pink) I reduced the speed to 500 spm.  There were no thread breaks or broken needles.  Amazing, I wish all my embroideries were as hassle free as this one.

Kindest regards,  Betty Ann

Sunny’s Butterfly Project

Sunny has been so gracious to show us her project from beginning to end.  It is gorgeous – thanks so much Sunny….Suz

You always give me incentive for a big project, Suz (like the wall hanging f the Geishas on one side and the Samurais on the back!)  I love that moth, and I’m thinking he would look great in the center of a wall hanging and the butterflies all around, such as this:

I love the pic of your moth on the white background pillow, though, and that would be more “do-able”!  I realize butterfly #12 isn’t out yet, but I can wait!  In any case, all of the butterflies are definitely going on a quilt!

Have happy holidays, and I hear the East is going to get pounded with cold weather, so stay warm and dry!  We’re loving the weather now that we have moved back to CA from MT, but would you believe, we even miss the snow (a little bit!)

So far I have four more of the 6×6 butterflies to do.  The block sizes will be 8×8.  And I am going to redo the moth, even though my machine is hiccuping.  I’ve found that using Terial Magic makes the fabrics stiff enough so that there’s very little puckering.  There is a piece of fabric on the very left that I am thinking of using for border (it has a lot of contrast.)  I am thinking of a gold/orange  background for the moth – we’ll see.  The bottom four blocks will be lavender and more shades of blue.  I’m having fun stitching these out, Suz, and they go fast.  The strip between the left column was an audition for sashing, but there’s not enough contrast.  (Pls excuse the busy quilt underneath them all – it is on our guest bed!)  Let me know if you have any suggestions! 

 

Well, just wanted to show you how far I have gotten on this project.  Just finished the gold flange on the large center square plus all the sashing on the quilt-as-you-go method and am getting ready to put the sashing strips on the outside, then the borders and binding!  Woo hoo.  I created an applique to put in the center of the back – it is a poem in Spanish that means:  In order to fly more lightly, Put on two rose petals, As does your companion, the Butterfly.  (It rhymes in Spanish).  Just wanted to show you my progress so far.  And BTW, I love your new alphabet of the flowers.  Thanks Suz for your generosity.   — Sunny
PS – I handed around the square with the moth to our recent little quilt club, and they LOVED it.  (Decided not to re-embroider it and quilted over the ripples!)

LINKS FOR THE DESIGNS

BFC2121 The Turquoise Moth

19th Anniversary Butterflies

Ree’s Steampunk Biker Jacket!

What I did with one of your designs – thanks so much! It has gotten many compliments and I’m telling everyone where the design is from – Ree

I absolutely love your jacket!  That is such a great idea and something I doubt many people would think of.  I’m glad you are getting the compliments for it – you deserve them.  And thank you for telling where the design is from 🙂   Suz

BFC1666 Steampunk Couture

 

Sunny’s Feline Zodiac Pillows

My oldest daughter loves kitties (and has two), and she needed new pillows for her couch.  Just finished Feline Stare and Sagittarius Cat pillows with modern backs.  They are 18 inches square, with pintucks and FMQ circles. Everyone at the quilt club loves them!!! =-= Sunny

I think anyone that saw them would love them!  You are so creative Sunny. 🙂

Suz