I finished quilting the camera!

Now I have a gazillion threads to bury! I'm going to WASPS sit n sew on Saturday so that'll be a job for there.  I was wondering whether to put the binding on so I can start hand sewing that to the back while I'm at sit n sew but I suspect those threads will keep me busy all day!

My friend uses a canon camera so, of course, I had to personalise it.

I'm not sure what part of the camera this circle is.  The pattern makes it look like a flash but it isn't.  I wasn't sure what to do with it so I was going to do a spiral motif but I couldn't find one and I was too impatient to make one so I just used this motif.

I wanted the centre of the quilt to look like the aperture and I think this was pretty successful.

The coloured segments were a pain in the neck to quilt!  I traced around the shape so I had an idea on my screen of where I needed to position the motif and then I had to keep moving it a bit this way and a bit that way until I was happy with the fit.

I wasn't happy with the position of the green so I unpicked it.  I repositioned it and it looked correct and then when I quilted it again it was wrong so I unpicked it again!  Third time wasn't a charm but I'd had enough by then so I left it.  They're all a bit "wrong" but it was the best I could do.

The smallest parts of this quilt probably took the longest.  I just wanted straight lines to make the grey rectangles look like the ridges on the sides of dials.  It worked but look at all of those threads!  I probably could have designed something so the lines moved continuously from one to the other but I wanted the look of the single lines.

I have to bury all the threads, pull out any basting lines I've left in and wash out any markings before sewing on the binding and a label.  There's still plenty of work to do but the end is in sight and at this rate my friend will have her 50th birthday present by her 53rd birthday!  Better later than never!