Baby Quilt - Lobster block embroidered

I'm making a quilt for Jason and Susan - it is 16 embroidered squares.  You might have already seen the Gecko!  Here's the Lobster  - a little longer and fuller video of the Janome 350E doing it's magic!

Embroidering the Gecko

Trying a new project with my embroidery machine.  Stay tuned for news on the project!  I'm very excited about this one.

Here's the video of the beginning...and a photo of the final product!  I love the colours of the different threads.

Christmas Quilt from fabric panel

Since I began to quilt I have wanted to incorporate embroidery into my projects.  Last year I was fortunate enough to finally save up enough money to buy myself an embroidery machine.  After practicing for some time I felt adequate enough to bring quilting and embroidery together.

A snowflake embroidered on the quilt

A beautiful cardinal and the emboridery

The project I chose was a lap quilt using a wintry print and adding snowflake embroidery.  My Mom loves Cardinals (Fred: "the birds not the catholics") and the material had a lovely cardinal as part of the pattern.  This came from a panel of material.  This is a very creative way of taking a piece of material using it productively for a great end product.

I actually started this during the summer when we were camping - I take my sewing machine away with us and work on some of my projects in our trailer.  You can read about some of our camping trips here.  It was wonderfully satisfying to see this come together nicely.

Christmas gift 2010

The quilt

Embroidery on the edge