Keegan's Name - #36 June

I was responsible for the presentation at the May Longarm meeting at Trackside Quilting in Laurel.  While I was at HMQS in Salt Lake in May 2014, the teachers were talking about using the cursive letters of the alphabet in quilting.  What they were really talking about was using the cursive letters in sashings and small borders.  But I thought I would try to use the lower case letters as background filler.

Some of the letters do work as background fill easily.  Others are a bit more challenging.  The u's together could look like a caterpillar.  I turned the quilts into the Quilt By Association guild to use as community quilts.

Using my demo as a jumping off point, I created a quilt with all of Keegan's birth information.  I went over his name and the other text that I wanted to see prominently a number of times.  Then I used all of the letters of the alphabet run together as the background fill.

This was a fun little project.  I did chalk a ruler line before I started writing the words that are most visible so they would be a little bit straight unto themselves.  I did not do any chalking or marking for the background fill - I just quilted a letter anywhere around the prominent text.

The top is one large piece of denim; the backing is one large piece of knit.  I did do the flange binding to finish the quilt off.