Chinese Dragon Quilt

Some of you might remember the Chinese Dragon applique that I was helping my daughter to make over a year and a half ago. She wanted to make this for her boyfriend. The plan was that I help her choose the fabrics from my stash and then fuse the pieces on the background fabric for her. She was supposed to do all the hand blanket stitching around each applique shape. Then I would quilt and bind it. So she did manage to do all the blanket stitching on all the red pieces and about 3 or 4 inches of the orange. Then it just sat and sat and she never finished it. So Mom to the rescue. I finished all the blanket stitching, I quilted it and sewed on the binding and a hanging sleeve and added a few embellishments. It took me 3 days to get it all done! Finally her boyfriend now has this quilt and in time for Chinese New Year (which is at the end of this month).

This Chinese Dragon was adapted from a book by Eric Carle. All the fabrics are batiks, except for the background fabric and the black border. I even added tiny red rickrack all around the quilt.

I added some sequins as an afterthought.

The back of the quilt I used a Chinese Dragon fabric print. This fabric was the leftovers from the pajama bottoms that I made for my daughters boyfriend last year.

A couple of buttons I added and sequins too.

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