I had a fun afternoon visiting with the Choo Choo Quilters at their Cuddle Quilt workshop this weekend! With three finished cuddle quilts to turn in, I popped in at the workshop and got four new quilt tops spray basted.
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| Three cuddle quilts finished. |
Quilting designs: finished cuddle quilts
One of the finished quilts was made with this peacock panel. The free-motion quilting pattern was feather variations, with a thread change for the border.
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| Feathers quilted on the peacock panel quilt. |
The second quilt had flowers and loops quilted into it. This design quilts up fast.
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| Flower quilting design. |
And the third was quilted with swirls and circles.
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| Swirls and circles quilting on this mix of batiks and cotton prints. |
I try to keep the width of cuddle quilts to less than about 42” wide so the backing fits on a standard 44/45” fabric width. The finished sizes of the three cuddle quilts that were turned in:
- (left): 29.5” x 35.5”,
- peacocks (center): 41.5” x 46”
- tiny florals (right): 34.5” x 36.5”.
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| The cuddle quilts for the guild’s community service project. |
Quilting the new quilt tops
At the workshop, I reconnected with guild members I hadn’t seen in a while and I met some of the new members. It was a lovely visit! The weather was cooperative for outside spray basting and the four tops I brought got basted.
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| Four spray basted quilt sandwiches. |
I was so inspired from the workshop, I sat down at the sewing machine and quilted two of the basted tops immediately.
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| Two cuddle quilts quilted in an afternoon. |
A swirls and feathers quilting motif for this one.
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| Swirls and feathers. FMQ: 45 minutes. |
Double circles for this one.
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| Double circles. FMQ: 1 hour. |
After dinner, the third one—with several small floral prints—was quilted with flower motifs.
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| Small floral prints mixed with stripes and blenders. |
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| Flower motifs quilted on the quilt. FMQ: 30 minutes. |
The last cuddle quilt top is from the Make Do wreath blocks that I pieced back in December. I haven’t decided on a quilting motif yet… and all-over pattern? or msybe something that follows the patchwork?
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| Wreath block quilt top. |
I’ve got bindings picked out for these quilts. And from the leftover backing fabrics, I cut several binding strips to add to my binding inventory.
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| Binding strips from backing fabric after trimming to size. |
