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| Cindy and her new quilt!!! :^) |
And the winner is: Cindy and Mike of the Road Maggots!!!
They decided to run an auction for the quilt instead of raffle tickets. The winning bid was $550.00!!!! WOW!! And they both really seem to love the quilt! I am so glad and relieved that it is going to a home where it will be cherished!!!
So I came up with the idea for this quilt back in July when we were given the lessons of free motion quilting using a tile concept from Angela Walters. I had sketched out the skull and cobwebs on a 3 1/2" X 3 1/2" sticky note and put it away for later use. And then this event came up and I thought, "Perfect!!"
My first skull was good, but my husband said it wasn't mean or scary enough. So I redid his eyes to be a little more stern looking.
The Harley Davidson skull cap was also an after thought. I had planned on putting the Harley emblem somewhere on the quilt and cobweb it in. Then last Monday, I thought I would just put it on his forehead, kind of as a joke, and it occurred to me that he needed a skull cap. I quickly cut out a piece of black fabric in the shape of the top of his head and put the emblem on top of that and it was, well, just meant to be!!!
I knew I wanted to quilt the flames in the outer boarder, but when I did that, the lighter border seemed to really clash with it. So I added the 1/4" black bias to separate the two, and it worked. Thank goodness. I was getting pretty upset by then!!! That was yesterday!!! I was up until 2 am working on the quilt, then got up at 6:30 this morning and worked another 2 hours on it. I think I have about 30-40 hours of work on this little quilt that measures 32.5" X 32.5".
So here is a little photo trip through the creating, sewing, quilting of "Run For A Brother".
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| Choices, choices, choices!!! Which skull to go with?? Hmmmmmm??? |
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| Now I have to decide which mouth? |
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| Layered and ready to pin. |
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| All pinned and ready to quilt. |
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| Working on his teeth. |
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| Nasal Surgery!!! Quilting in his nose actually!! |
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| Starting the cobweb tiles. |
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| Checking out the placement for the bike!! |
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| It looks so much better with the skull cap on!! |
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| More quilting done |
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| Stitching the bike. I used a tear-away stabilizer which I will NEVER do again!! It was very hard to tear it all away. Next time I will use Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy!!!! |
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| More quilting done and still much more to do! |
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| Close up of the finished bike. |
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| There are 4 spiders hidden around the quilt. |
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| Free motion quilting the flames. |
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| Done with the flames! WHEW!!!! |
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| Finished!!! |
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| The label on the back :^) |
There were a lot of bikes and a lot of wonderful people at the Poker Run. All there to help out a friend.brother!!! Some Harley dudes look pretty tough, but they have hearts of gold. Today, they showed their true colors!!!! Here's some photos of the gathering.
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| Sweet!!! Love all the bikes!!! |
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| Notice the quilt in the background? The auction is about to commmence!! |
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| My son Drew, his wife Jessica and her mom Jackie!!! |
It was a good day! I heard they raised about $6000.00. A very good day indeed!!!
Take care everyone, Happy Quilting and keep those needles sharp. Later. Martha
Wow!!!! You did a fantastic job on the quilt...I was anxious to see it finished....very nice
ReplyDeleteYou did a fabulous job designing and quilting this quilt. So glad to hear it raised a lot of money. We saw a lot of bikers on 99 from Dallas/Monmouth area between 1:00-1:30 heading south on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week.
Outstanding!Congratulations on raising so much for your friend/brother.
ReplyDeleteVery cool quilt!! Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteWow! That is an incredible quilt. The quilting on it is just amazing. Well done!
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