I decided to quilt it using a super simple back and forth meander-- I didn't want the quilting to take away from the embroidery.
Custom Baby Quilt -- Lochlan's Universe (one of my favorites!)
I'm super in love with this recent baby quilt I made for a client. It's called "Lochlan's Universe" and is a combination of hand embroidery and appliqué. It is one of my favorite custom quilts I've made yet!
The constellations are all embroidered by hand in the quilt top. I used Haptic Lab's star map pattern for this. Included are all the major constellations in the Northern Hemisphere. I love the idea of Lochlan sitting with his quilt in his lap, and using it to identify the constellations above him.
I made the mountain from a silhouette of Mt. Rainier (one of Lochlan's parents' favorite spots), creating the appliqué piece using my Scrappy Appliqué technique. I decided to quilt it using a super simple back and forth meander-- I didn't want the quilting to take away from the embroidery.
I loved incorporating the embroidery in this project and have big plans for doing so more in the future!
I decided to quilt it using a super simple back and forth meander-- I didn't want the quilting to take away from the embroidery.
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Hi Jane! The instructions were really nice — it doesn’t go through a lot of hand quilting techniques, but those can easily be found online. You are stitching through stabilizer, and yes, the pattern is intended to be the quilting, but I just did it for embroidering the top, then did a super simple quilting pattern. The back would look reversed, of course, and as long as you hide your tails and knots inside the quilt, it would look good. I think if I were to use the pattern for quilting, I might only have the words be on the top, rather than through all the layers. It was a really fun project, you should give it a try! Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks! It isn’t part of a pattern, I made an outline of a picture of Mt. Rainier, then enlarged it, and did the same for the trees.
I’m obsessed with this quilt — so many of my favorite things here!!!
Thanks so much! It’s one of my favorites, for sure.