Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Audubon Birds for Ann.
Hello, I am a new blogger.
My Blog is going to be about quilts I have made as gifts for family and friends.
This quilt is a mixture of Machine Embroidery and Machine Quilting.
I purchased the digitised designs from BFC Embroidery Designs. They are their Audubon Birds.
I made the quilt for my work collegue who has left warm North Queensland to go to live in cold Tasmania. It is backed with Black Polar Fleece so it will be nice and cosy.
The birds are in pairs, male and female and the blocks are 6" square with 1.5" name tags underneath.
Because I wanted the birds to stand out and be the main feature of the quilt I sashed it with 6" black strips and put a 6" border around it. I then machine quilted all of the black with a 2" sq diagonal grid.
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11 comments:

  1. deniseOctober 5, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    Hi Kay, Glad to be your friend and follower. I will have to look up BFC as I haven't heard of them. We usually use Embroidery Lib for our patterns. What Embroidery machine do you have?

    Your quilt nice and comforting. I'm sure your friend will use it a lot! LOl
    Cheers from Denise Edwards in Sydney

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  2. Linda MullenOctober 5, 2011 at 5:36 AM

    Welcome to blog land

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  3. PaulaOctober 5, 2011 at 5:52 AM

    Hi Kay, welcome to blogland. Your quilt is beautiful, I love the birds.

    Happy stitching.

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  4. WendyOctober 5, 2011 at 5:56 AM

    Congratulations on making your Blog Kay. See you on Wednesdays!
    Cheers from Wendy in Melbourne.

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  5. ElaineOctober 5, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    That's a beautiful quilt. I can't wait to see more of your quilts.

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  6. BunnyOctober 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    Welcome to blogland. I love your quilt with the embroidery. I have quite a few of their designs but not those. Love them.

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  7. BlinkyOctober 5, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    Great job!!! Looking forward to seeing more of your quilts!!

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  8. scgOctober 6, 2011 at 7:15 AM

    Yay Kay! Looking forward to seeing more! Shaaryn

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  9. merrily rowOctober 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    welcome and love your background

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  10. GlendaOctober 7, 2011 at 2:13 AM

    Welcome to Blog land Kay, your site looks lovely. Your quilt you made form Esthers design is Beautiful, what a achievement. Love it. Your birds are just as stunning but what a lot of work, or are they done by machine. Cheers Glenda

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  11. Kay DungavellJune 18, 2013 at 7:29 AM

    Hi Glenda - Yes they are done by machine - but even so that is still a lot of work - I know some people think that Machine embroidery is just a matter of sitting in front of the machine and hey presto - it does itself! vbg.

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