Five Shadows

My daughter was invited to the Junior Prom this year.

I love this rainbow of pretty girls!

I’ve never worked with a laser cut kit before for applique. Recently a friend asked if I would put together a Toni Whitney Design  kit – The Guardian for her. What I did was fuse it together, and then sent it back to her for the quilting. I have not seen the finished quilt. Here is the applique all fused together:

I liked the process. The fabric comes with fusible webbing already attached. The laser cut pieces come still attached within the fabric sheets, just snip a few threads and the applique pieces are ready for placement. This kit is much like a ‘paint by number’ but you are using the applique pieces instead of paint. The only complaint I have is that some of the fusible did not fuse. I had to go back and dab fabric paint on all the pieces of several of the fabrics. What I liked best about the process was using a teflon sheet over the pattern. I could see through the teflon to follow the placement of the fabric pieces over the pattern. Then peel off the sections built on the teflon sheet and place on the background.

My mother and mother-in-law are each receiving a decorative pillow this year. I put two orphaned basket quilt blocks to use, added leaf and yo-yo shaped flower appliques. Just something a little different than the usual gift of candy.

Picture Purrfect Kitties with purrsonality! This was a fun applique quilt. I used raw edge applique technique for this quilt top.

“ANT”titude  50″ x 56″ Picnic Quilt

Fun quilt full of ants stealing the picnic food. Fusible applique. My favorite are the ants at the bottom left by the glass of pink lemonade.