Overdue

First of all I must say CONGRATULATIONS to this lovely family on the birth of baby Oliver!  He was overdue and was sternly requested to leave the premises!

Look how cute my quilt the baby is!

Another long overdue project is this camera quilt for my friend's birthday.  It's only 8 month late so far.  Oops!

 So, I had the background all sewn together in my last post and all my content disappeared.  I had to cut out all the appliqué shapes and press them onto the camera...

Match the thread colours...

And blanket stitch the shapes onto the background.

I could barely see where to stitch the black on black shapes so I outlined them with chalk.

Ta da!  Now to quilt...

I don't want to do an edge to edge design so I'm attempting to custom quilt.  Custom quilting and I don't see eye to eye but it would be a shame to compromise with an all over design.  I used a plastic pocket and permanent marker to use as a template for my designs.  I looked at the original pattern and this white circle has been quilted to look like a flash.  My original idea was to design flash lines coming off the circle and after drawing it all out realised that that circle isn't the flash so that idea went out the window.  The flash is the white rectangle at the top of the camera but, it's also where the camera brand goes so I decided to add the brand name rather than a flash.

I scanned the templates and set them as the background in my quilters CAD program.  Then I used the shape to help me add the fill.  I finished the segment first and tested it on my frame to make sure it would work ok.  I was pretty happy with it, adjusted it a little and will position it better on the actual quilt.

I've prepared all my quilting designs and I'll be using those plus a bit of pantograph work to complete the quilting.  The only issue is now I'm ready to put it on the frame at last I don't have any backing!  They say you can't rush a good job...