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!
