Fifth of Five Plush Animal Design Quilts

This is the last of the quilts I made using a collection of coordinating fabrics my sister gave to me. This pattern, ("BQ" by Maple Island Quilts) was one I watched on a Sewing With Nancy show years ago. It's a great way to use small pillow panels or large prints you want to showcase.

 

In the panels I quilted around the picture, outlining the edge and key elements in the design. Then echo quilting around to the edge of the block. The rest of the quilt I did an all over free-motion design called Feather Meander by Angela Walters. Considering how fluffy the batting was, this ended up being a good choice for a design.

A quilt label on the back, and it's done.

White with Hearts Insulated Table Runner for Sylvia Lue

 I give to my sister, Sylvia Lue for Christmas this year. She will be visiting for our family reunion in July, so I wanted to get her present done as soon as possible so as to give it to her - save on shipping, ya know. I guess I had mentioned the idea of a quilt to her, but living in a warm climate, she wasn't sure that would be necessary or even a very useful/practical gift. Since I had recently finished my insulated table runner, I offered that idea to her. She liked it. The dimensions of this is 15" x 60" as per requested. I think I prefer it a little narrower on my table, but my table is a little narrower than most, I think.

She said she had checked table clothes, so she wanted it to be plain white with heart quilting. I used the Dear Heart pantograph which I shrunk down to have many rows on the runner. I used So Fine on the top and Bottom Line thread on the bottom, both white. The batting is one layer of Insul-Bright on the bottom and one layer of Warm and White 100% cotton batting on top.