Another baby quilt!
I have been having such fun making baby quilts.
Background
I found a wonderful background fabric – white with black dots. It washed up so nice and soft. I planned out how many rows that I wanted and then pressed lines so that I did not have to keep measuring. I could not use my blue wash away marker since I would be ironing them down.
Elephant fabrics
I traced the elephant shape onto fusible webbing. I cut the ears and eyes out of the webbing before pressing the fusible to the grey and yellow fabrics for the elephant bodies. I found all the grey and yellow elephant fabrics in my scrap bin. The eyes, I kept all black. The ear fabrics were all found in my scrap bin as well.
Applique placement
To make it easier to place the appliqué pieces, I traced the design with red marker onto transparency sheets. Wow! This worked great. It was easy to set the appliqué pieces facing right and left!
Machine applique
I used a grey thread for all of the machine appliqué. To stabilize the shape, I placed a piece of scrap paper behind the top. After finishing the satin stitch, I pulled the paper out.
Instead of doing a satin stitch around the eyes, I decided to just do a straight stitch and than a loop- to look like an eye.