Welcome your New Robot Overlords!

Robots Completed

Now to make the quilt...

And my granddaughter (AKA Voracious Reader) wanted to learn embroidery this weekend. This is her very first project! Pretty darn cool, if I say so myself!

True to my word...

TA DA!!!!!

 This may be the cutest thing I've ever done, and I can only take credit for adding the border and the quilting, since everything else was printed on the fabric by Spoonflower. But man, this is cute.

Every one of the squares is adorable.

Yellow was the perfect color for the border, though dark blue would have worked too. I just didn't want dark blue.

 Robots with ice cream cones... hee...

 The coordinating fabric has teeny little matching robots.

 That's a whole lotta stitches.

 It always amazes me how different a quilt looks after washing. This is intended as a baby gift eventually, and it has to be totally machine washable and dryable.

 So much more texture and interest now.

And once I finished the quilt, I could work on the needlepoint without guilt. There isn't going to be a whole lot of tonal difference between the blues of the water and the greens on the turtle, so I think maybe I need a splash of another color in there... maybe some muted reds. What do you think?

Wordless Saturday- Finishing up one and getting ready to start another...

And quilting too

American Idol eats so many words that it takes me a couple of days to recoup (patience, folks- it's almost over). On non AI evenings, I've been working on the Robot Quilt. I'm about 1/5 done with the panel quilting.

 This adorable little robot is upside down on purpose.

 The nice thing about plain backs is that the quilting is very visible.

This whole quilt makes me smile.

Old quilt, new quilt

The Firebird quilt is a baby quilt, meant to be used, not just looked at, which means it'll get dirty, which is exactly how it should be. I machine washed and dried the fabrics before quilting, and then I machine washed and dried the finished quilt.

The difference is amazing. It didn't shrink more, it just... fluffed... and puffed... the details really pop now, and the whole quilt has such depth. I love this. Now, it is truly ready to go to my friend, where it'll be an At Gramma's House Blanket.

 And by great coincidence, the fabric for the Next Quilt arrived the very morning after I finished Firebird. This is another Spoonflower original fabric (not my design). It's a complete mood shift from Firebird, but the moment I saw it, I fell in love. These goofy robots captivated me.

 And the coordinating fabric (one of several from the same designer), is perfect!

 I think I'll go with a solid color binding- probably bright orange, or bright green.

And of course, I started quilting right away. The designer helpfully drew little quilting lines everywhere, so I know right where to sew... This quilt is going to be such fun to work on!