I apologize for any blurry pictures, but these are all I have!
Mumsy made her first quilt block when she was around 13 years old, and she's made countless more since!
One of her goals has been to make one quilt for each of her grandbabies.
She has previously made them each a crib quilt, but those don't exactly cut it anymore!
Now that she's finished making adult sized quilts for each of her children, the grown up grandbaby quilts are her next big project!
This post is to show the first two, which is her progress so far!
Wolves and Dimensions
Mumsy decided long ago that she wanted to make a nice, big quilt for each of her grandchildren.
Then, when her oldest grandchild was nearing 18 years old, she knew she needed to get on the ball!
The grandson in question likes geometrical shapes and dimensions, so she drew up her design idea on grid paper with that in mind.
The border is made up of square rings that interlock, for which the colors add depth.
She decided that she didn't like the extra link she drew in red, so that's not included in the finished work.
His favorite colors are black and purple, so she focused on those instead.
Then, for the middle, she used the pattern Attic Window to be looking out onto some majestic wolves.
The finished product is below!
The Empire's Ultimate Quilt
Mumsy's second grandson likes things much plainer and likes Star Wars a lot.
She looked at some patterns online, but none of them were what she wanted. So, she looked at a picture, and drew her own version on freezer paper!
Notice that each space is labelled carefully, so she would be able to keep track of how to put them back together!
Building the Death Star takes a lot of work, whether it's an actual space weapon, or a fabric recreation!
This was merely step one in the process!
She painstakingly cut out each piece and laid them out so that she could choose the fabrics.
Making sure they were big enough for seam allowance, she used fabric scraps for each pattern piece that went from lightest to darkest. Then, she ironed the freezer paper (wax side down) onto the scraps.
Afterward, she trimmed around each edge to make the seam allowance as close to exactly 1/4 of an inch as possible.
She began piecing it together, one stitch at a time.
She also attached a black crescent to the white circle to work as a shadow.
Here the sphere is about a third of the way done, but the whole quilt was still far from being finished!
Now you can see how the arrangement of light to dark gives the whole pattern a more 3D spherical effect.
Once the Death Star was complete, she laid it in its place on the background, and traced it with heat erasable pens.
Then she cut out a circle 1/2 an inch inward from the line, and sewed the Death Star into place.
Using a technique called applique, she applied the ships onto the space patterned background.
She uses freezer paper to accomplish this technique.
Using the same method as the Death Star, she sewed on a few planets for it to destroy!
The rings around one planet were made by changing the thread color on the machine.
Her daughter, her grandson's mom, did the machine quilting herself!
Here's the finished quilt!
These are the adult sized quilts she's made for her grandbabies up to this point in time (the beginning of 2022).
At this moment, she has 5 more to go!
That could number could be higher by the time she gets them done, though!
We will keep updating as she gets more of these done, and we would love it if you want to come back and check them out!
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