Events are always great catalysts for making a new quilt. I had a new great nephew on the way and his father was an avid fisherman. I decided to make a fish quilt.
For this quilt, I designed a simple fish that looks the same no which direction it’s swimming.
I fused the fish down going in opposite directions on each row. For the eyes, I traced a nickel for the circle and fused them down. All the appliques are attached with buttonhole stitch. I added a narrow strip of yellow to the top and bottom of each row and then added a strip of watery fabric between each row. I put the same width yellow strip on each side and then bordered all around with the same watery fabric.
This quilt is machine quilted in the ditch on all the straight lines and I free-motion meandered in the areas around the fish. I quilted half loops on the fish to look like scales.
On the back, I appliqued in large letters the name of the quilt. Then I added another fish under the name and wrote who it was to, the date finished, etc.
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