Hoo-ee! It's been a while since an update. Well I modified the design yet once again...
My best friend came up and went hunting for blue fabric with me, selecting just the right shades of blue to compliment the guitars. The guitar fabric was purchased online, and is quite awesome. The Kid is quite excited.
Because I modified from the original Love Beads pattern, I had to change how it was going to be done. To keep it simpler, rather than sewing the circles into the blue parts, I've made them appliqués. All the stripes are spliced and sewn together. All the circles have been sewn onto stabilizer and pressed. They've been placed and pinned onto the quilt and I'm slowly working through sewing them all on.
I've figured out to quilt the quilt, so that's good. I'm going to try and use invisible thread, which is new to me. Who am I kidding? This is all new to me - it's only my second quilt! My thought is that I will quilt large guitar shapes (enlarged 400%) in the blue parts and then "strings" (vertical stripes) down the circles. I found a neat boy kid musical instrument striped fabric for the backing. It is not my favorite, not even my first choice, but the Kid loves it. He keeps reminding me not to forget to add it. My goal is to get the whole thing put together and quilted in time for an upcoming road trip, so that I can work on hand-stitching the binding on in the car. Images of fabric samples will be posted soon.
