Seems like it has taken me f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to post these pictures. Probably because it has been forever. I actually finished this quilt back in December…I think around December 10th. Well, I forgot to take pictures…until we were outside a bowling alley at 8pm at night. So the pictures were a little less than spectacular. So the wonderful people who took this quilt all the way to Canada to give as a wedding gift took some pictures for me. I know…excuses, excuses. So without further ado, here is the Robot Love Quilt:
For a refresher, here is the link to the inspiration for this quilt. The very talented artist behind kindlime’s creations allowed me to re-create the Robot graphic in Applique for this quilt. I first blogged about the fabrics here. Close up of the applique:
The graphic is so cute and really made this quilt very special. The wedding couple originally sent out this invitation, so we wanted to incorporate that into the quilt. I played off the other design element of the invitation, the gears, with the rest of the design. Choosing different greys and blacks to make each individual gear. Once I had all the fabric cut and the design worked out on graph paper, it came together really quickly.
The back was very simple since the front really needs to be the star. I quilted in the ditch for most of the quilt and then just outlined the applique and added vertical lines around it.
I think I will try the gears idea again in a future quilt. It was really fun to play with the placement and color value of each gear.
A very sincere thank you to Sara Funduk of kindlime for allowing me to use her design. Please go check out her kindlime shop on etsy and her new shop, MrHandsomeface, opening up February 1, 2011 .
Cheers,
Liz