Lollipop Panel Finished

What fun this was.   I have another of these panels and can't wait to get it done as well. Why did I wait so long?  I treated it like an applique and stitch in the proverbial ditch and then echo.  Add some background fills and you've got a really sweet Shower gift in a jiffy!!  Took me 4 hours to quilt this one.   I think the next one I will cut off the fish so that it's a more normal size baby quilt.  Invisible thread for the outlining, Glide for the background quilting, Bottom Line in the bobbin.  Free motion quilting large swirls in the border, small swirls in the sky, grass and waves.  Batting is Hobbs 80/20.  A nice cozy flannel for the back and it's ready to go in the washing machine.

Lollipops Panel

Lollitpops Detail

Lollipops Detail

Lollipops back

Here's the last of the four stocking that quilted.  I had all four of these on the frame at once.  I drew the outline of the front for all four and just had fun quilting.  Then rolled it and did traced the 4 backs - this backs just got simple quilting.  The last one is the "reindeer antlers"  by the time I did that one I just wanted to be done.  It was suppose to be snowflakes but I got lazy.  I saw the stencil that I had and thought it looked close enough to Antlers for me!!  I think the poinsettia flowers and the Christmas light are my favorites out of the bunch.

 So far I have 9 of the stocking sewn together and 4 that are completed.  I've got some time to finish up the rest of these right ;)  I quilted the names and then used fabric paints.  I think on the next ones I'll try making the cuff a bit bigger.  I'll add a few pictures on how I did the cuff as well.

The big question I have is what do you do with all those flannel scraps?  I've used flannel backing on the last 10 or so quilts and the extras from all the stockings.  Now what do I do with all those scraps?

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