Shannon's Quilt

I quilted a graduation quilt for my friend to give to her nephew.  After asking Shannon, what the graduate liked, I searched the internet for graphics of those items.  Then I created a continuous line drawing of those pictures.  Using the laser light on the back of my quilting machine, I followed my lines to create the designs in the gray squares.
Combine:

Airplane:

Dodge Ram symbol:

You would think that the Dodge Ram symbol is everywhere, right?  It is not.  On the Dodge site, it is really small.  When I enlarged it to make a graphic out of it to 6" it was so grainy that I could not do anything with it.  Luckily, we have a Dodge.  I took a picture of the Ram symbol on the wheel and used that picture to make my drawing.  It worked pretty well.

Bobcat for Montana State University - Bozeman:

Motorcycle for hill climbing:

I had a continuous line drawing of a motorcycle in Laura Lee Fritz's book but it was more of a cruising bike.  I had to go to the internet to find a dirt bike.
Roads since the young feller graduated with a civil engineering degree:

It was fun to put the little designs in the quilt.
I did some stitching in the ditch with this quilt.  I worked every roll completely.  I did not leave part of it unquilted and then go back later to finish it.  I still ended up with tucks in the back.  It was horrible.  It is a really yucky feeling.
After going to HMQS in Sandy, UT in May, I learned from Sue Patten that to help prevent tucks, quilt clockwise, then counterclockwise so you are working the fullness of the quilt into the body of the quilt rather than taking it with you to a corner.  I will have to try that the next time I quilt because I have ended up with tucks on the back on the last two quilts I quilted.  One was mine so I wasn't too worried.  I just chalked it up as a learning experience.  But when I did it on Shannon's quilt, I knew I had a real problem with my quilting.