Jonell from the accounting team was pregnant, and she knew she was having a boy. Pat Hangca, and admirer of my earlier quilts asked what it would cost to have me make one for Jonell. I gave her a pricing list with various parameters. We had a brainstorm session, and I was off to the research. The brainstorm determined that the colors were a grey-blue with orange contrasts. I had the grey blue wave fabric, and animals seemed appropriate. I sketched the ark, and went in hunt of appropriate fabrics. I thought it would be fun to have each animal made from a different animal's print. I went to the children's section to find illustrations of animals.
The ark is made from a ribbon fabric I had found a while back. Before the commission, I was going to make her a receiving blanked from the ribbons and a contrasting fabric. It seemed appropriate to include.
I used fuse-able web to do the applique. I sketched the animal on the sticky side of the web, cut it out with a quarter inch allowance outside the sketch, and then snipped to the sketch line. Having the fusible on both the seam allowance and the main section helped to hold the finger pressed edges before I ironed. I used satin stitch to secure them, and then echo quilted each animal block.
For the ark background, I loosely quilted on the print lines.
Below are some close ups of the animals both after the initial applique, and then after the quilting.
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