Monday, November 19, 2012

FM Challenge for November

Got this challenge done over the weekend, I was making a quilt for a great-nephew and used the swirl techniques from the SewCalGal challenge on it to get both of them taken care of.

I did the larger swirls around the outside border on the sides.
 I added a striped border on the top and bottom of the quilt so it wasn't a square, then I quilted some small swirls in the white part of the stripes.  Since the quilt is for a baby boy, I didn't want to add too many swirls--would they make it look too feminine? 
I tried to make them look more like waves than swirls!
 I did take a photo of the whole finished quilt, but it wasn't in focus.
This month's challenge was easy, I've been doing swirls in my quilting for a while now and really enjoy making all kinds of them.  
One more month to go in the challenge. 

5 comments:

  1. Hi, Laura. Cute quilt. I like swirls too. They seem to be ocean waves for me. They're so dynamic and they add movement. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
    best, nadia

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  2. Ooh, I love how you used the swirl motif on some of the stripes in your border fabric! I'm going to have to try that myself. Neat effect!

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  3. Laura, it looks great! What a neat idea to just do the swirls in part of the stripes - very nice! ~Jeanne

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  4. Awesome quilt! You must have worked non stop to get this done in a weekend. I think swirls are a bit feminine just fine for a baby boy. This quilt doesn't need anything else in my opinion.

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