I am so excited with the nearly finished quilt I have been commissioned to do for a client in honor of her grandson’s Bar Mitzvah. As you can see, with the exception of a few details the piece is nearly complete.
My client’s daughter (the mother of the Bar Mitzvah boy) asked me to add a Torah to the quilt. I intend to thank her for suggesting this as it embodies much of the knowledge of the Jewish religion.
I satin stitched the edges of the Torah and tree, and used a decorative stitch to create the birds’ wings. The background of the entire quilt is free motion/stipple quilted.
Below, you can see that the leaves have been free motion quilted but the three little fish have not been quilted yet.
I used a beautiful veriagated thread to outline the Star of David as well as the Jewish letters which spell out the Bar Mitvah boy’s Torah portion which he will read from the Torah during his ceremony.
I created a fused binding by fusing a one inch piece to all four sides, 1/2 an inch fused to the back and 1/2 inch fused to the front. I then free motioned the entire border with a leaf motif to continue the flow of the design in the center of the quilt
Here is a close-up of the thread workings: satin stitching with veriagated threads, free motion stipple quilting and the decorative stitching on the bird. I am still thinking about free motion quilting the interior of the tree trunk.
My first quilted dog ever and I adore him, a little yellow lab.
another peek at the quilting
