Baby Elephants

A Quilting For Customers Continuation

I have a few very prolific customers.  One of which made a quilt for a new baby in her family.  It was a sweet quilt with applique elephants.  This customer is one who lets me do whatever I feel the quilt needs.  While I personally do not make “cute” quilts, I love to quilt them.

With pinwheels set on point and fused applique elephants, which were left unfinished, I took on the challenge.  The pinwheels on-point had extra setting fabric on the sided so I would need to extend a square or triangular design into edges. This is one of the first quilts I custom quilted with my new Quilt-EZ computerized system.  I was excited and apprehensive.  I wanted it to come out spectacular!

I decided upon using the point to point feature in the software.  This allows you to set a  design between two points on the quilt.  For example, opposite corners of a block or two of the three corners of a triangle.  I love this feature; it allows you to create unexpected designs from what otherwise would be simple triangle designs.

I chose a circle/curls design and a straight line design. The circle/curls went in the pinwheel blocks and the lines in the setting triangles.  To extend the design into the extra wide setting triangles on the sides, I added a ¼” line just inside the border.  In the applique elephants, I used the circle/curls design to help keep the elephants from coming off with use.

I chose to stitch in the ditch around the narrow inner border. I then used both the lines and the circle/curl design in the outer border.

By the way, the thread color is white.

What do you think?

Cute isn’t it?

C