Challenge 2 of Project QUILTING Season 12 is fussy cutting. I am going to try and make a placemat for each challenge, whether or not I'll be successful depends on what the challenge is. Time will tell if I succeed or not. The second goal I set for myself is to use fabrics from my stash/older fabrics.
Let's see how I do with this challenge and my goals. My favourite block is a star block, so that was the starting point. The fabric I choose to fussy cut was an Anna Griffin from 2013, yup time this one got used.
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| decision time, what to fussy cut from this piece |
I forgot to take pictures as I was working on this, everything just seemed to fall into place and I never thought to grab the camera. I turned under the edges of the cutout and used the buttonhole stitch to stitch it to the square for the centre of the star.
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| please excuse the colours, I think the sun went on holidays |
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| I tried to keep the quilting simple |
For the quilting I echoed the daisy and stitched in the ditch around the cutout. The yellow squares got straight lines. As you can see I did do feathers on both sides, I love feathers and just couldn't help myself. I used Thermore batting once again for this one.
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| for the backing I used a piece of the Anna Griffen fabric |
So how did I do on my goals? Made a placemat ✓ Used stash/older fabric ✓ A win on both counts.
The next challenge is January 31st. Wonder what it is and how I'll do on my goals?
