The quilt for my brother is finished! Huray! I’m feeling really good about Christmas being on FRIDAY! I still have more sewing, sewing, sewing to do but if I keep that lead foot on the petal of my sewing machine like I’ve been doing for the last 3 weeks I’m confident I’ll get it all done! Maybe, just maybe, I’ll fit that visit to the eyebrow lady in somewhere…I’m not lovin the Muppet style eyebrows I’ve been sporting the last couple of weeks!
Now back to the quilt. This was such a fun thing to throw together! It only took me two days to complete, and in my opinion that makes life very exciting! Two days meaning in between other projects…and, oh ya that job I still hopefully have at Maisonnette! Haha just kidding, actually people like my mom and our Thursday/Friday employee Candace have been very understanding of the sewing-room-bubble/cave like behavior I have been exerting. Anyways, it was a fast and easy gift to whip up, and I got a chance to use the free motion quilting setting my NEW Elna Quilting Queen sewing machine!! Yes, I got a new machine and now my older Elna has a prominent spot on my desk at home! I will always love her so very much but there are things about this new Elna that make my life so easy…like the automatic thread cutter, the knee foot lifter, the hundreds of different stitches…the list goes on and on. 
This was the first time i’ve ever used the free motion quit setting and it’s pretty hard to keep your curves nice n’ even, so I ended up just going crazy with it most of the time! It was fun!
To construct this quilt I started by sewing the front and back pieces right sides together leaving an opening to pull the quilt right side out. Then I sewed all the way around the outside edge. Then I placed all the circles where I wanted them, ironed them down with some fusible webbing, and quilted them down. TaDA! Done!
xoxoMadeline
Gorgeous quilt! I've been jonesing to do an actual quilt… this post made me feel even more that way!
Awesome machine!
Fun…fun!!
Madeline! It is beautiful! Ok so as I am understanding here – no binding right?? I am working on a quilt that I must finish tonight… and I think I may just do exactly what you did – flip it and then sew a border around – kind of a faux binding if you will. Am I right? I think this looks really good. I did a quilt earlier this year and hand stitched the binding – it took me about 12 hours just to stitch it!! I am a slow stitcher, and it didn't even look as good as I had hoped with the hand-stitching, I think what you have here is the way to go!! xo
Thanks everyone!!
Georgia- you bet! it's so easy, and fast! I also love the look of binding but I sew mine down with invisible thread. I think it looks great, and beats sitting there for 12 hours!!