I am really enjoying the year long Instagram birthday gift exchange. It is fun coming up with creative gifts for women all over the country. Sometimes I really tailor the item to their request and sometimes I just get creative.
Elizabeth Hartman is a very detailed creative quilt designer. She now has patterns for many animals. These are all created by strip piecing, no cutting out tiny squares or triangles. Of course I made the fox.
As well as some hedgehogs. These patterns work very well in solid fabrics, it was fun to play with prints and see if I could get the correct values so the image stands out.
Not so much, the top left hedgehog sort of disappears into the background, out he came (I’ll find another use for that block) and another one replaced him.
Much better.
Practice makes better! I can really see how my quilting has improved. Here I was working with rulers to get the straight lines, that is an interesting technique. So far I’ve been working on small projects and I’m getting the hang of it.
I did use the quilting to give the hedgehogs some little toes.
The final mini, a spiral gives the fox cuter cheeks. Most of the quilting just fades into the busy prints.
On the back, a sleeve for hanging.
https://instagram.com/p/5ZnyBfoxRL/?taken-by=threadedmess
Leah