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SPIRAL GEESE MINI QUILT
I quilted it on my Juki using both my walking foot and free-motion foot. The fabrics are all from my stash and the background is Kona White.
Can you see the tiny, embroidered triangles in the middle? Those were hand-sewn with pearl cotton.
I can talk a bit later about how I came up with my idea, (once my partner receives the mini) but for now, I’ll write a bit about how I developed the pattern. It is very low-tech here at my house. I have photoshop, but not a quilt design program.
Here is my first little drawing I did in my Moleskine sketch pad.
Then I scanned it into photoshop and colored it in (I was too lazy to get up and grab my kids markers).
Then it was time to make my pattern. I googled “spiral” and found this one. I printed it out about 18″ inches wide and then I hand drew the pattern onto it. The geese were 4 different sized templates that I drafted and traced around. It’s pretty messy and my daughter even drew on the paper while I was working on it.
Next, I made a clean tracing of the pattern in ink, numbering each goose and marking where I would cut my sections. I kept this one intact and photocopied it, so I had a pattern to paper-piece on.
This was my sample coming together. It was pieced in 8 sections.
The sample being appliqued. I machine sewed most of the curves and then appliqued the curviest parts. I made the rainbow mini 20% smaller than the original, so I decided to applique the entire background.
My rainbow geese before they were appliqued to the background.
The background is basted on in this photo. I decided to do reverse appliqué, since it would be bulky to try to turn the seam allowances on the geese. You could probably just machine stitch it down at this point, and it’ll blend in with the quilting. I hand-stitched it with a slip stitch.
