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Swimming fish quilt
thomhaus.blogspot.com/2011/04/swimming-fish-quilt.html
I started this quilt when my little boy was about 6months old with a plan it would be for his 1st birthday. It was inspired by a picture I saw of paper fish. I loved the image of the beautiful little fish all swimming one way and then the lone fish in a bright colour swimming against the stream.
I drafted a template of the fish and divided it into 3 sections for the head, body and tail and then made up a variety of green stripes and then cut out the fish from these stripes and tacked them down with a rough running stitch.
With the help of mum (after I ruined the first go) I pieced together 3 different blue spots in varying sizes to give the effect of waves for the background.
I hand appliquéd all the fish on to the background (a laborious task to say the least) and used cute mother of pearl buttons for the fish’s eyes.
For the quilting I used the pearl cotton in the style from the Material Obsession girls as I didn’t want to be quilting this forever. The quilting shows up really nicely I think and was so quick and easy I definitely am enjoying this quilting as another way to get things finished! I also quilted a few scales on the fish using green pearl cotton to bring out the colours in the fish a little more.
Swimming fish quilt
thomhaus.blogspot.com/2011/04/swimming-fish-quilt.html
I started this quilt when my little boy was about 6months old with a plan it would be for his 1st birthday. It was inspired by a picture I saw of paper fish. I loved the image of the beautiful little fish all swimming one way and then the lone fish in a bright colour swimming against the stream.
I drafted a template of the fish and divided it into 3 sections for the head, body and tail and then made up a variety of green stripes and then cut out the fish from these stripes and tacked them down with a rough running stitch.
With the help of mum (after I ruined the first go) I pieced together 3 different blue spots in varying sizes to give the effect of waves for the background.
I hand appliquéd all the fish on to the background (a laborious task to say the least) and used cute mother of pearl buttons for the fish’s eyes.
For the quilting I used the pearl cotton in the style from the Material Obsession girls as I didn’t want to be quilting this forever. The quilting shows up really nicely I think and was so quick and easy I definitely am enjoying this quilting as another way to get things finished! I also quilted a few scales on the fish using green pearl cotton to bring out the colours in the fish a little more.