The last quilt I finished before I had to pack up my longarm to move was the Michigan quilt for Anna of Life Sew Crafty. She finished the quilt and blogged about it before I finished my blog post about the quilting part. I’ll catch up one of these days!
This was a very large quilt, about 96″ x 108″! My husband and father in law were luckily both on hand to hold it and protect it so I could take a few photos.
Anna and I decided to do woods and animal type quilting inside the land mass portion of Michigan, and to do water texture with some fish in the blue portion. In doing so, we inadvertently turned Michigan into an island, but I really love the effect. I think my husband would be very happy with a whole cloth version of just the blue portion.
There are a variety of animals and trees represented: bears, deer, elk, moose. I did an outline just inside Michigan to delineate the land/water difference. I did not stitch in the ditch because the seams were pressed open and did not want to risk having my stitching undo any of Anna’s stitching.
This side angle shows the texture the best of the pictures I have. I had to ship it off before the movers came so pictures are somewhat limited.
As soon as I pulled this quilt off the frame, we started dismantling the longarm for the move. Happily, she survived the trek and is up and running again! I currently have no wait, and would be happy to quilt for you!
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Well, a lot of Michigan is surrounded by lakes, so I think it works!
I guess a state like Colorado (square and landlocked) wouldn’t lend itself to this treatment. 🙂