For a change....Animal Life!

This is a mini quilt (12" square) for a quilters guild challenge, which had an animal theme.

As you can see, I chose my favourite African animals.

I started with the centre roundel, but decided that it needed a vulture, and then added a tortoise to balance the bottom binding.

It's been a fun make!

I'm not much of a hand quilter, but for this quilt, where I'd carefully appliqued the sihouettes, I thought that it deserved the texture (and also, at 12" square, it wasn't too large to handle easily!).

I went for randomly placed circles (the giraffe head was the first one, which was a deliberate placement), in a thread colour slightly darker than the fabric..

The colours are more true in the photo above than in this detail photo.
 

Even more little Plant Life

 Yes, I'm up to half way through the 100 day challenge (in fact, in real life, a little further on - my blog will catch up soon!).

Still having fun choosing from my fabric scraps and embroidery flosses!

Still more little Plant Life

 The next ten - 31 to 40.

The first eight show case plant life as shown on different fabrics in my stash.  I'm not sure about including all of these.  Time will tell!

More Little Plant Life

The next ten blocks - 21 to 30.  I'm having fun experimenting with different designs!

But stay tuned, as there are more of these 3" blocks coming down the road!

 

Is it finished.....

 

....... if it hasn't got a label yet?  It's been put to one side whilst we debate the name and the wording for the label, but essentially it's finished!

It's 60" square - lovely for wrapping up in, not quite the right shape for a bed - which is a nice size for me to quilt.

I did a meandering quilting line, and included hearts...

....and flowers.  Some like this, some a bit simpler.

The backing wasn't quite wide enough, so I inserted a strip of the main fabric from the front, and used the same for the binding too.

It all ties together quite well, I think, with a mostly floral theme, but using different colours and different scales throughout.