Tracing the Design w/ a Light Box
All traced and ready to spray baste the muslin onto a piece of backing. This makes it easier to embroider and creates a neat cushioned effect on the final stitchery.
Tracing onto Fabric Complete
The stitchery has begun; I used a variegated valdani pearl cotton thread which I absolutely love. I do not separate the threads…I just unroll and go. Go visit their website here and see all the great things that they have!
Start of Embroidery
Here is the stitchery all done…I used only three stitches. Backstitch, french knots and daisy loop. Here is a reference guide on line for embroidery stitches. I am still learning new stitches all the time.
Center Embroidery All Finished
The rest of the quilt went together quickly with some scraps from my stash. Here are the border pieces that I selected.
Border Pieces All Ready
Here are the border pieces all ready to go together….
Ready to Sew
I then created my quilt sandwich; check out this tutorial here that demonstrates how I put together my quilt sandwiches with spray baste. I then decided to hand quilt the top with a dark brown valdani thread. It turned out great and was fund to do.
Hand Quilting
Trim and and the binding. Here is the final quilt all complete…turned out really nice.
Rustic Sampler All Done
Happy Sewing…enjoy a beautiful summer weekend. I confess that I am security waiting for fall to hurry up and arrive so I can break out all the fall decorations!
You can purchase this mini sampler from my easy store….here’s the link!
What a pretty design! Do you remember the name of the designer?
I will have to look it up … it was a pattern in the summer 2012 issue of primitive quilts. Hope that helps.
I have just read over your tutorial for spray basting (as well as several others!) I have been quilting for about 15 years and have never tried this technique. You mentioned waiting a couple of hours before starting to machine quilt, but I am wondering if there is a time limit in which I must finish the machine quilting. In other words, what if it takes me a week to finish it? Does the adhesive continue to hold or does it become ineffective after a certain time? I also saw in another tutorial that the person ironed all of the layers after doing the spray basting. Do you think this is necessary, as I feel like ironing all of those layers on a regular conventional ironing board may create more problems than it fixes unless your quilt is quite small. Thanks for your help on this!!
Ann…thanks for stopping by. In response to your first question, I have left my spray basted quilt for several weeks before I quilt it and have never had any problems. The spray baste holds pretty well without anything shifting. And, I NEVER iron my quilts after they are basted. I usually iron the top and the back really well before I baste which is the key to getting everything really flat. Second, I think it would be difficult to do when basted because of the bulk and you never know what the other side will look like. Plus, I am not sure what the heat would do to the spray baste. I love this method of creating a quilt sandwich and highly recommend it! Let me know how it goes!
Thanks for your quick response Wendy. I have my ‘quilt sandwich’ all laid out and smoothed on the floor waiting to be spray basted (I did iron the top & back very well). I can’t wait to try it!!