Always Sewin' Somethin!: polar bear quilt

Thursday, December 31, 2015

JJ's Polar Bear Quilt

This post is about the second quilt I made for my Aunt to give to one of her daughters (see previous post HERE)

This one was a lot easier to choose colors/fabrics for! My Aunt says that this cousin LOVES polar bears and that her favorite colors are blue, teal, aqua, white and brown. So I found this awesome polar bear print and decided to feature it with various sized squares. I LOVE the colors in this quilt. Don't you?

The quilt was fun to make - I just cut a bunch of strips from all my fabric and started making blocks with them. Some are off centered, some are not.

The quilting was the hard part on this one - I couldn't decide what to do! Finally we went with straight lines echoing the squares. Next time I suggest doing this on a very big quilt - SOMEBODY STOP ME! It turned out okay, but I just didn't feel like it was my best work. The quilt was way too bulky to attempt straight line quilting with my walking foot (which I did for about 6 blocks), so I had to do the whole thing free hand. I probably should have gone with a different quilting design, but as it turns out - this one really blended in and let the blocks themselves shine. You really can't see the wobbly lines (which are ALL OVER THE PLACE) unless you are looking very closely. :p

I went with a solid brown, hand stitched binding. Mmm. Love this color of brown. It reminds me of chocolate.

The back is almost all flannel from my stash. Woot! (I had a few extra blocks left over, so they got to be on the back with the label.) It's so warm and cuddly, I love it.