More Panda Progress

I got sidetracked painting my front door, but I have finally worked on my panda quilt some more.  The bamboo pieces and leaves are not sewn on yet, but you can see the quilt is moving along.

Chris

Panda Progress

This week I am finally doing some quilting.  I stitched the pandas to the background fabric and put the sashing around them.  The border fabric is not sewn yet.  I barely had enough border fabric.  This was a kit and I really hate it when they barely give you enough fabric to cut out what you need to cut out.  I had to cut the borders about 1/4 inch thinner than the instructions. 
Once I have the borders sewn onto the quilt I will be appliqueing bamboo in various places on the quilt top.
I am thinking of binding the quilt in yellow.  Will have to see how that looks when I work on it tomorrow.  Enough for today.  I have to go and exercise…..

Chris

All Six Pandas

All of the pandas are now fused.  I have to buy some threads so I can satin stitch the pieces down and add the details. 
I am also thinking about not blogging any more. Lately I have begun to question what contributions to anything that I am making by blogging.  More than once I have thought about deleting my blogger blog.  I think in the next few months I will make that decision.  Meanwhile I will try to blog more and see if I can get back into it.

Chris

More Pandas…

I have 5 out of 6 pandas made now. They are just temporarily sitting on background fabrics as I make my final decisions about the fabrics. The photo does not really show the colors that accurately.
Tomorrow morning I will create the last panda and tomorrow afternoon I will start to stitch the pandas in place incorporating all the details. Who knows maybe I will have it done for Valentine's day instead of my daughter's birthday in May!

Chris

Starting the Panda Quilt

I prepared the fabric yesterday and started to make the blocks for the quilt today. I am making this quilt for my daughter for her birthday in May. She loves pandas.
Here is a link to the pattern:
Panda pattern by Critter Pattern Works
I make her pattern for a dinosaur quilt when my daughter was about 4 years old. She is now 20 years old. Where did the time go????
I think the pandas will be a little easier than the dinosaurs with all their claws, etc.
I have one block fused….5 more to go.

Chris