Showing posts with label Fox among the Birches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fox among the Birches. Show all posts

14 July 2017

Fox among the Birches {in grey}

Are there any of you who also have this problem???


I already made this quilt!!! But I just HAD TO make it again! 


You can see the original Fox among the Birches quilt post here.




I never used to have this problem. You see, I don't have the talent of being able to look at a stack of fabric and envision how it will look once cut up and pieced into a quilt. To help me with that problem I purchased the Electric Quilt (EQ7) program back in November of 2013. Last year I wrote about how much I have been enjoying using the EQ7 program and listed some of the things I like about it here in this post.

My problem now is that whenever I use the EQ7 program to draw up a new pattern design, and fill it in with different fabrics and colours, I alway end up making more than one colourway that I wind up wanting to make! Another reason I wanted to remake this quilt is that I had come up with a new way to piece the legs for the walking fox and shared about that at the Let's Bee Social in this post.
So now today I am sharing the Fox among the Birches using Kona Steel for the background instead of the Kona Mushroom.



I used a dark grey thread on top and plain white Gutermann thread in the bobbin. And I love how well it has blended in with the background and yet remained rather subtle across the orange foxes.




 The background is Kona Steel. The birch trees are made from Minimalista by AGF Studio and a dark and light black smokey looking fabrics. The foxes are Kona Kumquat and Papaya.



The backing is a new stash addition (my first one this year!) from Bobbie Lou's Fabric Factory and is called Out Foxed by Michael Miller Fabrics.






Normally, I first attach the binding to the back and press toward the front before topstitching to finish. But this time I sewed it onto the front and then pressed to the back. Then I stitched in the ditch along the edge of the binding, catching the folded edge on the back with the bobbin thread. It's a bit trickier. But I like the thinner binding edge to be at the front sometimes. And then you aren't cutting off the points of your piecing either.


The "Fox among the Birches" baby quilt finished at 38" x 45"
and was the 39th use of my 2nd edition of 100 labels
ordered from Ikaprint.









Linking up to Finish it up Friday with 

Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts







Am I the only one?

 Or do you ever have the compulsion to make more than one version of the same quilt?



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5 July 2017

Let's Bee Social #184



Welcome to the Let's Bee Social!
So glad to have you join us for the Let's Bee Social weekly linky party!
This week 8 more baby foxes were born! These little foxes were made using Kona Tangerine and Kumquat against a Steel grey background.



This is certainly not the first time I have made these little 8" fox blocks. But it is the first time I have been happy with how the legs on the standing fox were pieced. As you can see in the photo below, the legs used to be made out of two long strips that were then joined along the horizontal seam. When I was making the fox blocks for the first Fox among the Birches quilt, I was not happy with how difficult it is to line up those diagonal legs where they join along that horizontal seam. So I changed how they were pieced and now the leg portion does not have that horizontal seam. Much better!








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21 June 2017

Let's Bee Social #182

Welcome to the Let's Bee Social!
So glad to have you join us for the Let's Bee Social weekly linky party!

This week 8 little foxes were born in my sewing room....




These little foxes finish at 8" square. And were soon found frolicking among the Birches.



This is a new pdf quilt pattern that you can find in my shop here - Fox among the Birches.


And there are four options for Quilt Kits also available here.

This Quilt Kit includes - Good Natured from Riley Blake - that I am using for my backing .








This Quilt Kit has Birch Bark from the Alpine collection for the Background and also includes the Good Natured from Riley Blake Designs for backing.







This Quilt Kit includes this wintery backing - Woodland Winter Animals from Northcott Fabrics.





And this Quilt Kit includes this cute backing - Animal Toss from Forest Friends for MODA.


Hoping to be sharing the finished Fox among the Birches quilt this Friday!


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