Sea Creatures are appliqued

Kimberly created each of her sea creatures with some well done machine embroidery applique. Besides fish, she even added some seaweed and a cute little crab. The fish are made up of such bright cheery colors and batiks. The background fabric, also batik, was a great watery blue.

She did a great job of finding that perfect fabric to add to the border, a batik with just about every color out there. She used the same batik fabric for the backing fabric as well. What a happy cheerful quilt for a nursery or beach house!

Sea Creatures are quilted

I quilted Kimberly's quilt with a combination of hand guided free motion quilting and computerized quilting with my Intelliquilter. I echoed around each of the sea creatures and quilted a watery meander that avoided each fish. The swirls around each creature are reminiscent of water flowing around them.

In the negative spaces in between the fish, I tucked in some shells, a few fish, and even a starfish all quilted perfectly with my IQ. All these lovely details can make this quilt really fun to look at. You never know what you are going to find next.

I had so much fun quilting Kimberly's sea creatures quilt! I hope she and her family love finding the little surprises I was able to tuck into the quilting for them.