The Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, MO was on Saturday. Of course I had to take some pictures of my quilt there!
Here is a closeup of my quilting. This was my first time to put cornerstones on a quilt. I circled my FMQ in the corners. The border I put sporadic cobblestones, kind of using a feather technique. I was going to do cobblestones until I decided it was too much work. On the inner border I quilted straight lines to resemble a road.
Sorry about the sideways pictures. I quilted in the ditch on all of the squares. In the big squares, some of them I quilted the Route 66 emblem with a 66 in the middle.
Sorry this one is upside down. The dark squares I just wrote Route 66 since I could not see the blue lines I traced for the emblem and I was too lazy to look for my white pencil. :) Just keeping it real!
Sorry all of these are upside down, I could not figure out how to rotate the pictures on my new phone, although I have since figured it out! My husband likes to buy patches when we are traveling Route 66. Since he did not have any plans for them, I sewed them on little squares that did not have any Route 66 fabric.
These are all of the patches he has so far. I'm sure I'll be adding more!
I thought the quilt needed a little extra, so I appliqued a Route 66 across the top. Since red is my husband's favorite color and I did not have any Route 66 red fabric, this is the only way I could add red to the quilt.
You can see more pictures of the quilt here: http://missyscakesandaprons.blogspot.com/2016/08/pets-on-quilt-show.html
I did all of the piecing of this quilt on either a hand crank or treadle, and all of the Free motion quilting was done on my Singer 16 industrial treadle which is over 120 years old.
I was supposed to finish the quilt last year for our 20th anniversary but I was having problems with the tension so I got mad with it and put it up. It was suggested to change the thread in the bobbin, but I didn't want to. Well, guess what? When I pulled it back out, I changed the thread in the bobbin and did not have any more problems. Lesson learned.
I am so glad to have finally finished this quilt just in time for our anniversary!
Missy
8 comments:
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! I think I want a hand crank machine. Is it difficult to hold your fabric AND sew with the other hand, at the same time?
What a memorable quilt!! Congratulations on finishing it and taking it to be photographed in context. Did anyone give you weird looks?
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Great theme! I love that you really personalized it with the patches.
It turned out great!
I bet your hubby is thrilled with it! Cool that you got the opportunity to photograph it at the Route 66 Festival.
I've loved watching the progress of this quilt - very special and I bet your husband just loves it.
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