Quilting The World

After a whirlwind couple of months, Kyle coming home on R&R, getting engaged, I finally was able to give Kyle his Christmas gift.  I went the homemade route and made him a quilt.  It took a long time to finish, many frustrations (and mistakes) but I made it and I was happy to give it to him as a gift (and be finished with it!)

The quilt in total size is a queen size about 110” x 100”.  I don’t think I realized how much quilting that was until I actually laid it out.  Then I had to think of what to quilt and how, I decided to quilt the world, literally!  Then I would mark all the places we have been together.  I bought a map to trace the world onto.  After a series of tests with iron on ink, and a pen that erases when ironed I decided to trace a huge map of the world I had bought.  As you can see I tried tracing the world on the window, but by the time I was done the window and gotten so hot that the ink didn’t transfer well onto the fabric.  I traced it again on the table, it did transfer a little better but not great, so I then hand drew most of the world onto of the “wanna be” ironed on tracing.

I bought my fabric from Joann, and of course used all their awesome coupons.  Prices will remain undisclosed since it was a gift after all :)  I free motion quilted all of the countries, which was the easiest party of the entire thing.  To make is short and simple the rest of it was.... long!  Again, I made lots of mistakes and found out quilting interlock knit is a wee bit more difficult.  It is much more stretchy than cotton.  I also put the 4 elements in the corners of the map.  You can see all the photos below!