Friday, December 9, 2011

Winter Wonderland




I finished Karen's Winter Wonderland quilt in time for Christmas.  (This is a Karen from my guild here in Wichita, not the Karen from Texas in a recent post) She does such a nice job on the embroidery that I really hate to quilt over it, but if I don't it will look saggy baggy and awful.  I usually just do cross-hatching or straight line quilting over the embroidery, but I really hated to quilt over those cute fat snowmen! 










 I decided to quilt around the snowmen and put the straight line quilting behind them.  Once I get quilting my brain tends to drift off and I find myself thinking about what's for dinner, quilts I want to make, errands I need to run etc. and sometimes that gets me in trouble.  I found I had quilted right over this poor little guy - doesn't he look like he's been run over? 








 I picked out a few stitches and here he is all plump again.







One more quilt to finish and I'm on vacation!


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6 comments:

  1. SheilaDecember 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    I love the pattern "winter wonderland" and hope to someday make it. Your quilt is beautiful! Have a great weekend.

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  2. Furball Farm QuiltingDecember 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    It looks beautiful, I love this quilt and seeing all the different ways it looks after being quilted. Thankyou for sharing. Enjoy your Christmas.

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  3. LeeanneDecember 9, 2011 at 6:21 PM

    Poor wee snowman...luckily you came to and saved him! What a fabulous quilt.

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  4. UnknownDecember 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM

    Little tubby snowmen are the best. Great quilting, Jan!

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  5. UnknownJune 5, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    Hi Jan, i am also a longarm quilter and have my first embroidery quilt to machine quilt. My customer has picked out a panto (for the sake of keeping the cost down)and i was hoping you could give me a bit of advice. If i use a panto (working from the back side of my machine) i will not be able to view my stitches and was wondering if you had any issues with the embroidery getting caught in the hopping foot. I see you have stitched through the embroidery in your quilt here but you were obviously working from the front of the machine. Just wondering if i will get myself in trouble working from the back and should encourage my customer to spend the extra $ for a custom application. Maybe it's no big deal either way, but thought i would ask from your thoughts. I appreciate it, thank you. Karen

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    1. Jan HutchisonJune 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM

      Hi Karen,

      I have not had a problem with my foot getting snagged in the embroidery. The embroidery on this quilt was very well done with small even stitches. I wouldn't think it would be a problem unless there are some real toe-nail catchers on yours. Check the stitches and if they look too big or loose, talk to you customer about another option.

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