Moving on -

 

 

My friends convinced me to leave the threads exposed - 

 

On the back of the Noah's Ark baby quilt panel - 

 

So now all I have to do is trim and bind it -  

 

I found some pre-packaged Extra Wide Bias Tape - 

 

That I think will work for the binding -  

 

 

Then next up - 

 

Is the Bee Happy panel - 

 

I pressed the panel - 

 

And basted the zippers to a plain white muslin backing - 

 

 

Loaded the backing on the frame - 

 

Then basted the batting in place - 

 

 

It's about time for some machine maintenance - 

 

Oiling and such - 

 

So - I need to do that tomorrow -

 

Before I start to quilt this panel -

 

I want to play with one more practice panel - 

 

Before I quilt the PINK flower panel - 

 

So this should do nicely - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Quilted -

 

 

The Noah's Ark baby quilt panel is officially quilted - 

 

 

I finished up the GOLD/YELLOW in the Ark - 

 

And the lions - 

 

And the giraffes -

 

And the top corners - 

So I need to un-baste the zippers - 

And trim it - 

And make some binding - 

 

I think I'll find some fabric to make another backing for it -

Right now it has a muslin backing - 

And all of the colored stitching shows - 

 

The lighting in these photos is not the best - 

 

But you get the idea - 

Anyway - I could hide all of that stitching - 

 

With another backing - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Gold/Yellow -

 

 

Was next on the Noah's Ark baby quilt panel - 

 

So I started with the bird beaks on the right side - 

 

The GOLD/YELLOW outline is "cleaner" - 

 

Than the WHITE one that I stitched earlier - 

So there IS improvement -

 

Then I tried "Lazy 8s" or "Wishbones" in the rainbow stripe - 

 

And decided that those are much easier to do "straight up/down" - 

 

Than they are to do "sideways" - 

 

And a little texture in the Camel's face that you can hardly see - 

 

I still have some GOLD/YELLOW to do in the Ark - 

 

And the Lions on the right - 

 

And the Giraffes at the bottom - 

 

And the top corners - 

 

So that's on the agenda for tomorrow - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Gray -

 

 

Was next on the Noah's Ark baby quilt panel - 

 

So I started with the elephant on the left side - 

 

 

Then the zebra head in the middle - 

 

 

And the one on the right side - 

 

 

Then the elephant on the right side - 

 

 

Nothing fancy - 

 

Just outlining and echoing from the outside edge to the center - 

 

Then I rolled it up a bit to get to the hippo -

I thought the light GRAY area might be a good place to try something special - 

 

Because - if I messed up - it wouldn't be seen - 

 

But then I couldn't see what I was doing - 

 

So I said "never mind" and did some meandering lines - 

 

 

Then I outlined the clamshells in GRAY - 

 

And I'm getting better!! -

 

The first section that I did the other day in BROWN was messy - 

 

 

And the GREEN was a little better - 

 

 

There are still some wobbles - 

 

But the GRAY is MUCH better - 

 

I tried to slow down and "look ahead" -

 

And found that it was actually easier to do "one-handed" -

 

Tomorrow I'll change to a GOLD/YELLOW thread - 

And try to finish the rest of this panel - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

A little more red -

 

 

At the bottom side borders - 

 

And the bottom border - 

 

And I thought I was done with the RED - 

 

 

Until I realized that I didn't outline the RED parts - 

 

In the bird at the bottom - 

 

Between the RED arcs and the BLUE teardrops - 

 

But - how do I outline those RED bits -

 

Without breaking thread on every single one of them? - 

 

Hmmm -

Remember the other day when I had a "DUH" moment - 

 

When I realized that any area can be outlined in either of TWO colors - 

 

The "inside" one or the "outside" one? - 

 

Well - here's a perfect example - 

 

Instead of outlining the RED arcs in RED - 

 

I outlined the BLUE bits on the "inside" of the arc - 

 

Same difference - 

 

And I solved the "breaking thread" problem - 

 

By "traveling" in the BLUE background to the next one -

 

Now I'm down to the last TWO colors - 

 

The GOLD/YELLOW and the GRAY - 

 

I'm going to do the GRAY next - 

 

The elephants and zebra heads - 

 

 

Then I'll have to roll it - 

 

To get to the rest of the elephant on this side - 

 

 

And the hippo on this side - 

 

 

I also decided to change to the cone thread - 

 

For both the top and bobbin - 

 

On the GOLD/YELLOW and GRAY - 

That might help with the tension problems - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Red -

 

 

 

Was next on the Noah's Ark baby quilt panel - 

 

So I started with the rainbow at the top - 

 

 

And decided to do pebbles - 

 

The ones on the other side look better - 

 

Then I did the birds - 

 

And the tension was getting funky - 

With little white "pokies" showing through - 

 

So I tried to fix it - 

 

And moved on to the side borders - 

 

With more pebbles - 

 

Then I did the hippo's mouth with echoing - 

 

I still have the rest of the side borders - 

 

And the bottom border to do in RED - 

 

But I'll finish that up tomorrow - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -

 

Green -

 

 

Was next on the Noah's Ark baby quilt panel - 

 

This is for you - Jennifer - LOL - 

 

 

There is the mountain under the Ark - 

 

And some leaves -

 

And the two bottom corners - 

 

So I pulled out some of my GREEN threads - 

 

And chose the dark one - second from the left - 

 

It blends in on the dark leaves - 

 

And it outlines the other leaves pretty well - 

 

Even though it shows my wobbles - 

 

And it shows up on the "clamshell" part of the mountain - 

 

I don't know what possessed me to try pebbles in that space on the right - 

 

But I didn't like it - 

 

And decided to do something different in the other GREEN sections - 

 

Then - to be consistent - 

 

I had to do pebbles in the same section on the other corner - 

I guess - all in all - they don't look that bad - 

But I should have given it more thought before I did it - 

I think I'm down to RED - GOLD/YELLOW - and GRAY - 

So I'll decide which one I want to stitch tomorrow - 

Tomorrow - LOL - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -