Finished quilt: Aimo's babyquilt

Aimo's quilt, finished.

Fabrics used:

Each color block has 35 different fabric squares + 1 square of the white background fabric. Most are reused fabrics found second hand, but e.g. most of the turquoise fabrics are new.

Batting and backing fabric:

Double layer of thinnest polyester batting found at Eurokangas. Reused IKEA bed duvet cover I've gotten from mom.

Quilting pattern:

Angela Walters' "swirl hook", orange peel and variants thereof. 

Top thread: 

Gutermann quilting thread, 100% cotton, 200m, color 618. Took slightly more than one spool. 

Bobbin thread: 

Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white). Used a bit more than 5 filled bobbins. Same thread used for piecing the blocks, on interfacing.

A bit better detail photo of the "name tag" quilted at the bottom.

While I was attending the Arbis course "Jeans makeover" last weekend, I asked if anybody could help me take a photo of the quilt before I sent it off to Tampere to little Aimo's parents. Our teacher Carola obliged.

Why do I seem lately to forget to take a photo of the finished quilt, and then do remember at. The. Very. Last. Minute.

Must be a consequence of me mostly being able to quilt/sew late in the evening or early in the night. Not many pretty photos to be taken in daylight then.

Yes, the quilting seems rather dense, and even washed it feels a bit stiff. It will, however, become soft if used a lot. That's the thing about using a double layer

The pattern of the free motion quilting is a variant of a swirl, called "swirl hook". At least, that what Angela Walters calls it in her video tutorial and books. I watched that video, and also how Natalia Bonner quilts regular swirls in one of her videos, and then I tried.

Mine don't look consistent, both from the fact that I quilted small ones between the color blocks and larger ones outside of them on the border, and then because I had to start and stop a lot because my kids kept interrupting. It's hard to get back into the motion you had going on at the machine, when you have to go change and diaper or play tea party or go Octonaut exploring with the kids for a while.

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