Tuesday 30 October 2012

Pirate Quilt.....Finished!

#pirate #quilt finished!
Tim's Pirate Quilt is finished at last....it's taken me a while but I'm really pleased with it.  We started with Tim's sketch based on the Cowboy Baby Quilt in the Material Obsession book.
Pirate Quilt design

I had to scale up the block size due to the size of the ships and skulls on the Emily Taylor Pirate fabric from Riley Blake. The only thing I didn't like about this fabric was that the two creams from the collection were different colours. The red is a Japanese print from FabricWorm and some precious Heather Ross dots/canon balls.
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Looking back in my Flickr photos I can see that I finished the top back in January! I couldn't decide how to quilt it, as Tim would have liked some skulls or waves, but I just couldn't see it.  In the end I quilted straight lines, 4.2426" apart, to make squares!
Pirate quilt
pirate quilt

Finished at last....

#pirate #quilt finished at last
and in time for the Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival over with Amy.


Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats - Entry No. 480
Finished quilt measures : 61″x 55″
Quilted by : Me!
Category : Baby Quilt, Machine Quilted at Home
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9 comments:

  1. You've done a great job! Isn't it amazing how the quilting often slows us down?

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  2. Well done for getting it finished, it's horrible when you don't know what to do for the next step. It looks stunning I'm sure it will be well loved!

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  3. It's always the quilting that slows me down...oh and getting the batting out here. It's a great finish - you must be so happy!

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  4. Very cool! I used that fabric for a quilt for my nephew but I only had a layer cake and a charm pack. I love how you've used yardage for such big impact - love it!

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  5. I love the pirate quilt! :) Sooo cool! :)

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  6. Aww that's sooooo good. So what is next ? More fabric ?

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  7. This is awesome! Now I want to put some pinwheels in my pirate quilt too!

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