Wednesday, January 2, 2013

A New Year of WIP Wednesdays

Nothing like a fresh new year for fresh new WIPs! What is it about me that I have to start a new project  before I finish all of my old projects? Now with that said, I really did finish many, many projects last year and have only one WIP from last year.

So here is a peek at my latest project, Koi Pond.
I'm planning on adding some koi embroidery to the center navy section. Here is a test run.
This is machine embroidery design by Embroidery Library. I was planning on putting 3 fish in the center. This test was done on a quilt sandwich and it stitched out pretty well, but the back was a bit messy. I'll have to work to see if I can get it to stitch out a little cleaner.
It worked great for a test, but I'm wondering how it will be when I have a big quilt hanging over the edge?

This gives you the idea of proportion, three Koi will  easily fit.

Most of the time the back of embroidery doesn't show, so I will have to work to get this looking good enough for the back of the quilt.

I also started a coordinating pillow, as my last project for Sew Cal Gal's 2012 FMQ Challenge.

So here are my stats:
In-process: (1)
Elephant quilt


New projects: (2)
Koi Pond quilt
Pond Pillow

Finished (3)
Purple heart wall hanging 
Storybook quilt # 2 
Pod Pillow
   
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

7 comments:

  1. Which thread are you using there? It's really pretty! I love your koi.

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  2. Did you do that freemotion??? Wow!!!

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  3. I love koi, that looks stunning! The FMQ is great, good work!

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  4. That's going to be such a pretty quilt and pillow!

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  5. wow, that is amazing! I am stopping by from the WIP hop, I would love to have you come by and see what I have been up to :) http://domesticdeficitdisorder.blogspot.com/2013/01/wip-wednesday.html

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  6. Amazing koi, love the practice run and hope you do something real with it. I also think the little pops of fabric in the borders is fun and did that myself on the last two projects.

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  7. It will be lovely! Perhaps you could do the machine embroidery on the top with one layer of batting. Trim away the extra bat and then finish the quilt with a full bat and backing. Sort of creating a type of trapunto effect with the fish. Just a thought.
    Have a great day.
    Always, Queenie

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