Pop Art

So I have a membership for a year in a embroidery club, thanks to a loving family member. All I can say is I was super excited when I opened last month packet to find Anita Goodesign Pop Art. For those who don't know Anita Goodesign and have an embroidery machine I would recommend checking her out. I have found quite a few odd-ball designs for fun out-of the box quilts.

Tu es l'amour de ma vie

This quilt over all was not as bad as other embroidery quilts I have done. It has a very nice stain stitch, that is very flexible to size changes. You can easily break the 10% with out having stretched stitches, or wholes in your stitches. This allowed quilt to fall more evenly with out to many stiff areas. Although through my experience I have yet to find a project of this serious of embroidery that doesn't have stiff spots. I have heard that using metallic thread helps but I have yet to try it.

There were a few down sides. I found was that the pattern even at the largest size was still on the small end for what I wanted to do. With her set sizes and suggest lay out will leave you at about a twin to a full in size. I had to go in a altered all the patterns I used. I also found has a bit of an off stitch out. The programing was made in mind that the only people making this are doing it backing, batting all in one. It took a bit of jumping between sections to do a straight stitch out.

Other than those few hiccups it was a pretty easy quilt. Just get ready for a long stitch time. The out line on average took about an hour to hour and a half. The entire blocks took about 3 hours. An this is not one of the patterns you can leave and come back to, it has quite a bit a involvement for the embroider.

    While quilting this I used all variegated threads. Although you can't really see it that well. It was also my first time working with an all cotton thread. It didn't seem to lint as much as the treads I have used. Which was wonderful when cleaning out the bobbin, and was nice when going over the black areas.

I ended it about 4" greater that a full

I would like to say that this would be my last big quilt project till school brakes. But that isn't happening as I look at my to-do list:
Civil War
Cowboy
Fairies
Etc...

Till next week.