A local quilt shop is having a summer quilt challenge.... I thought in June I'd have more time to get it done, so I purchased my fabric to enter... a FQ from the grab bag... I ended up with brown! ACK! What was I going to do... so I decided to make a scrap quilt from my browns and then I needed to add another colour... but what? So I had lots of this finger painted fabric in green.... so I planned to do a rail fence pattern with 5 strips per block and 16 blocks total... While away last week I cut out my strips, then made the 16 blocks.... and two days ago I assembled the top with some green sashing... But it looked a little plain, so I added some appliquéd geckos. They are done on the embroidery machine thanks to Embird (and a picture of a gecko!)....Yesterday I started quilting it on the longarm, and finished it this morning. This afternoon and evening I applied the binding.
I'm scared about entering it... but as my Gram would have said "A blind man would love to see it"... Tomorrow morning I will drop it off, a day "early"! OK I don't have the chance of handing it in on the due date - I'm at the highland games!
I love it. I have wanted to use that Gecko in a quilt and yours is worth remembering for that! Good luck on the challenge. You are a winner for putting together such a cute quilt.
I think you have made me a fan of geckos! Great job taking the unwanted - the brown - and turning it into a really, really fun quilt!!! Congratulations!!!
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I love it. I have wanted to use that Gecko in a quilt and yours is worth remembering for that! Good luck on the challenge. You are a winner for putting together such a cute quilt.
Brilliant idea to add the geckoes! It's a delightful quilt.
I think it is very cute! I love the geckoes!
Such a clever concept with the geckos and the quilting of the quilt. :D
Great quilt, and I love those geckos!!! Whoop whoop!!
fun quilt with the geckoes. the label is cute too how it incorporated the theme.
Love the geckoes - what a neat addition and it adds such fun to the quilt. I was looking all over for more geckoes. Hope you win.
How fun is that!! The geckos are really cool looking peeking out in the quilt!
I think you have made me a fan of geckos! Great job taking the unwanted - the brown - and turning it into a really, really fun quilt!!! Congratulations!!!
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