Selena and the Bear Paw Quilt Reading Strategies

I was a few days late for the end of this quilt, equally it was our Isle Batik September challenge, and now it's taken a few more than days to get a post together, considering my daughter and darling grandson have been here visiting from Alberta. You may have seen the finish mail on Instagram, where he not merely was a most capable quilt holder, just too a pretty amazing quilt lensman to kicking!

Here is my spin on the traditional Conduct Paw block, which I've named Carry Paw Dance, because I've 'blown apart' the block and I have the paws waltzing around the centre four blocks! This is 1 of the quilts on my Q3FAL listing which is here.

Please annotation that all of the fabrics for this quilt were supplied by Isle Batik. The 100% wool batting was supplied by Hobbs Batting, and the thread I used to piece this quilt by Aurifil. The Behave Paw die, known as a Block on Board or BOB die was given to me by AccuQuilt. Our claiming was to create a minimum of 45X60"quilt for a child using the die we were given in our July box. The die, as I've shown before, has all the pieces for the block on the one lath.

I've written about the procedure hither and shown you lot the finished flimsy here. And then permit'due south take a closer look at the quilting, because I was anxious to get started on all that delicious negative infinite, simply as well anxious as to how exactly I was going to handle all that negative space.

I knew I wanted to do pebbles and feathers in the background, and some of Angela Walters' designs in the squares of the paws. How to get some guild, some division though, within the negative space?

I've been following along with Natalia Bonner'south 'Permit's Sew' on her blog and on her YouTube channel. I saw her pebbles and random swirls fill a few days earlier I started quilting this quilt, and so I thought I'd like to incorporate that. I then searched Comport Paw quilt on her web log and establish this post where she had quilted a traditional Bear Paw quilt, so that is where I got the idea to exercise the scallops around the border.

I couldn't exercise them continuously though, because of the waltzing paws. I made a template that would allow for sets of ii arcs and sets of three along the borders, since the paws are randomly placed around the quilt. I used one of my Quilted Pineapple curve rulers to help follow the bend, and different Natalia'southward, I did two echoes of the curves. My feathers menstruation along the arc, whereas hers fill up in a triangle area created by the Conduct Paw blocks in the quilt she quilted.

Because there were feathers along the arcs, I wasn't going to quilt more than feathers as originally sort of planned, in with the pebbles. I pulled out my Angela books and a Judi Madsen volume, and started flipping. In Judi's book I saw the orange peel(?) background filler.

I could do this in the sort of diamond formed by the waltzing paws around the centre four blocks! To practice this design, you run up a grid (ruler work), and then I FMQ-ed the arcs, alternating a left arc, a right arc, kind of cartoon "S's"across the grid.

Angela provided inspiration for the squares of the paws. I did 3 unlike designs. In the aqua ones:

and in the violet ones:

and in the teal ones:

You may take noticed at that place were some ghost behave paw tracks in the beginning photo of the pebbles and swirls. I wanted to add a niggling whimsy to this quilt for a kid. Some of the claws got an echo inside; others did not.

For the iv centre full Bear Paw blocks I followed how Natalia quilted hers.

Where the four corner violet squares form the secondary design of a cardinal star, I treated that block separately, doing the same blueprint!

Information technology all came together quite nicely!

Me backside my quilt; Brady took the photo! It was rather windy past the water, no surprise.

Here's my quilt helper!

We took the quilt to Leamington marina for its photo shoot. Information technology was merely the perfect day.

I did a scrappy binding, using the five main fabrics in the quilt:

That's all I take left now of the Farewell in Bounding main, and I forgot to include the teeny bit I have left of Bye in aqua in this photograph.

I car-stitched the binding to the front of the quilt, hand-stitching it downwardly on the back. This is my favourite method, although it'south the slowest, and then I haven't been doing it very often. You can also see the material characterization besides as the satin one in the photo below.

The dominicus was a footling too high in the sky, and my artillery a footling too short holding up the photographic camera for showing off the texture, which is then wonderful with this cute wool batting. This is the second time I've used Hobbs 100% wool batting and it is just glorious.

Another fiddling bit of whimsy I added was doing a GFB (Glitter Flecked Binding) that is the signature binding of Molli Sparkles. Run across the two little pieces of aqua along the upper right border of the binding? That's it. I only had enough of that aqua to exercise a few inches of bounden, so that seemed advisable.

Dorsum at abode, I tried to go a straighter, less wind-blown shot. I'm really pleased with the finish. I've written up the pattern, and information technology volition be available shortly.

Quilt Stats:
Pattern:  Original design
Size: 56 10 56"
Textile: Island Batik
Backing: Fine art Gallery Fabrics from stash
Batting: Hobbs 100% wool

Quilted: on Avril; 192 771 stitches
Threads: pieced on Tillie, my 1951 Featherweight with Aurifil 50 wt; quilted with Superior thread 100% polyester #401, YLI variegated purple 40 wt 100% cotton, and Aurifil variegated aqua 40 wt. The Bottom Line light blue in the bobbin.

Linking upwardly
Quilt Fabrication
Confessions of A Textile Addict
TGIFF at
Airheaded Quilts for the Q3FAL
Clever Chameleon

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