After the the much delayed success of my daughter's quilt, it was my son's turn! Which posed another problem...what to do for a teenager? My son was going through the 'anything as long as it's black' phase, and I wanted to create another 'memory quilt' that was unique to him. So I bought yards of black sheeting, a couple of yards of brights and found a simple design of triangles and squares, which I shot together on the machine - speed was of the essence here as I couldn't wait to get started! The effect was striking, but the detail is in the quilting. I decided to hand quilt designs of all of his favourite cartoon, computer game and puppet characters from the age of 1 to 16, starting with 'Elmo' and finishing with 'Sonic the Hedgehog', all around the black border of the quilt. The centre was hand quilted with a large random vermicelli stitch using a variegated thread consisting of all the bright colours in the quilt.
The quilt measures 70" square, took three months to make and was completed in January 2010. I think he really likes it.. but you know how it is with teenagers!! I'm really pleased with it because it is so different to anything I've ever done, colourwise and concept. And I think it will grow with him as the quilting is so subtle...The effect is that all the characters are hidden in the vermicelli quilting. Details of some of the designs are shown below.
So that the dog wasn't left out, I also made her a small quilt which is known as 'Poppy's Mat' where she eats her chews and lounges in the sunshine when we are camping and features a paper pieced applique of her goodself in the centre. As you can see, she loves to be on it, I think you can get the idea!
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