Pikachu

I finally finished the Pikachu quilt! After spending several weeks letting my machine learn it's lesson, because I was having tension issues, I came back with a positive mentality and set out to do as good a job as possible on this last quilt.

It took me a little less than 50 hours to complete this quilt with the most time being spent on quilting (about 13 hours.) The binding presented a new challenge for me. This quilt features a hole in the middle which meant I had to hand sew the binding. Luckily I remembered the importance of ironing before sewing, and didn't have too much trouble getting all those corners taken care of.

The back of the quilt was made of six columns of scrap "pixels" and two panels of muslin on either side.

The quilting was fun, but presented a new challenge as well. I quilted around the binding like previous quilts, and around major features of the Pokemon, but this time I decided to add much more quilting, so I pretty much quilted around every major fabric change. That still left lots of unquilted areas, so I decided to quilt around certain individual pixels.