small lady quilts revisited

After teaching the class on chop and drop applique, one of my students showed me how she decorated the left side of her quilts with motifs.  It got me thinking about doing some kind of embellishment on 2 of the quilts that I had finished.

I have been pinning things on Pinterest for years, and some of the things that I save are humorous quotes.  I pulled out a couple of them, typed them up in Word and enlarged them in the font and size that I needed for these quilts.  Then I picked a background color that went with the quilts.  The Word document was then printed on HQ printables photo paper, which is prepared for printing fabric that goes through the inkjet printer.  After the ink dried, I adhered steam-a-seam to the back and fused the sayings onto the left side of my art quilts.

A friend came to visit and suggested that I add black buttonhole stitching to the outside of the sayings to permanently adhere them to the quilts.  I used stitch #1309 on the Bernina, and set the width to 1.6 and the length to 2.3.  It was just the perfect finish to these quilts.

Here's a close up of the stitching:

And the finished, revised quilts

I hope you like how I revisited these pieces with ideas from 2 other quilters!  I certainly do!

President's block

Each year our guild is asked to make quilt blocks to give to our outgoing president, as a way to thank her for her year of service to our organization.  This year, 2018, the request to the members was to make a block, up to 10", of something orange, and perhaps a chicken or cat somewhere on the block.

I know that this particular president has quite a sense of humor, so I designed a humorous cat for the block that I wanted to make for her.

And here it is:

I hope it gives you a smile too!