Janome Horizon 7700

BQ Quilt: Jungle Fever

I bought this fabric because my local fabric store had all the coordinated black and tan fabrics at a super sale price.  My friend Tisha Cabral had given me the pattern for my birthday several years ago.

I pieced the top and felt it needed some pizzazz.  So I fused on and machine appliquéd some turquoise Hawaiian Breadfruit motifs I had in a Hawaiian Quilt book.  I used a narrow zig zag for this, using polyester thread and it does not ravel or show.  I used the same turquoise fabric for the first border and for the binding, which also helped a lot.

We moved to Oregon between the piecing and the quilting, and since I don't like having UFO's laying around, I bargained with myself that I had to finish it before starting my Crazy Quilting adventure. 

It's a pretty large square quilt, 84" x 84" but I was able to free motion quilt it without too much difficulty on my Janome Horizon 7700.  I like to use a lot of different quilting designs, for added interest and for practice.  Most of the designs I know I learned from Leah Day and from Angela Walters. 

Because the fabric is somewhat reminiscent of the jungle, and because I like to name my quilts after songs when possible, this one is called "Jungle Fever."

It doesn't really match any of my décor, and I would be delighted to sell it.  Maybe I will list it on my Etsy page and see what happens.


BBBB: Boring Before Blue Breadfruit!

Breadfruit motifs applied with Wonder Under, then machine appliquéd.

Completed top

Quilting detail in turquoise border

Label.  

The back is pieced, using the leftover turquoise as needed. 

Carol Doak Royal Mini Quilt Challenge

This was a mini quilt challenge on Carol's Yahoo Group.  I cheated on this one ; it was supposed to finish at around 12" square, but I doubled the pattern size.  It makes a very nice table topper in my living room.  

It is paper pieced from batik scraps, and I quilted it in Free Motion on my Janome Horizon 7700.

Carol Doak Mystery BOM 2012 - "What's Black & White & Read All Over?"

This was Carol Doak's Mystery BOM in 2012-2013.   The patterns were shown in red and white, but I had been wanting to do a red, black and white quilt for a while, so that is what I did. The red tone on tone flowers and white (small polka dots) are mostly the same fabric throughout, but I used many different "black" fabrics.  For the back, I did some intuitive piecing to use up some of the scraps, which I learned from Angela Walters.  I quilted it in free motion with my Janome Horizon 7700 and bound it with a leopard black and white print.  I named the quilt "What's Black & White, and Read All Over?"  like the bubble gum riddle.