Earlier this week I shared the beginnint stages of the newest quilt in my liturgical series, inspired by the Prayers of the People. After finishing the top, I layered it to quilt. As I mentioned before, it was a bit dumb to cut out the central globe first, especially since I wanted to quilt it all together in order to make it as straight as possible.
There wasn't as much space in this one for extra design elements, but i did quilt these happy fish (they were supposed to be rainbow trout in rememberance of the trout lakes my grandparents used to run, but really look mostly just like fish).
Here you can see my quilting setup and my quilting "helpers". Mostly I think they want me to stop quilting and go play.
Here you can see the back, it's quilted pretty densely. I used 100 weight thread around all the letters, and heavier thread for the borders and other decorative elements.
After quilting I wet blocked the whole thing square and then cut out the central globe again. I wanted it to be suspended floating in the center of the quilt by these golden rays. Each ray is a piece of peltex enclosed in gold fabric. In the pictures below they are pinned in "backwards". Once I got them sewed down, the parts sticking out below were trimmed off and the whole thing was flipped around and faced.
Here you can see blue "helping" again as I hand stitched down the facing around the globe, you can see the finished edges of the rays sticking out. I also faced the inner edge of the cut circle on the main quilt (where it looks raggedy in the picture above), and the outer edge of the whole quilt so that all the cut edges were nicely finished.
Come back on Friday to see the final quilt.
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