Eww! Something sure smells fishy around here! Oh yeah, it's time for the Something Smells Fishy Blog Hop, hosted by Carol of Just Let me Quilt.
In 2016 when I was in Washington state to celebrate my mom's 90th birthday, my sister, my daughter, my nephew and I took the ferry across to Seattle. We went to Pike Place Market and then we walked to a quilt shop called, Undercover Quilts. Unfortunately that shop has since closed, but they have an Etsy Store by the same name, but they are on a break until sometime in August. Anyhow, while I was at the quilt shop I bought a couple of patterns and Salmon Boy was one of the patterns I bought. I never made the quilt until now. Sometimes a blog hop can light fire under you to get you going to make or finish a project, so thanks Carol, I needed this blog hop to get this one made!😁😉
I bought the pattern only (not the laser cut), so it was a bit tedious to cut out the salmon, but not as bad as I thought, which was probably one reason I kept putting it off 😄!
All done now. I quilted the background, but only fused the salmon and the salmon eggs onto the quilt. I wasn't going to stitch around all those tiny areas!😜😬It's a wall hanging, so it won't get washed or used like a cuddle quilt would.
Quilt measures 16" high x 29" wide.
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| I chose to use a salmon color hand dyed fabric for the salmon. The pattern showed using a dark salmon. I quilted wavy lines to simulate water movement. |
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| I cut this out by hand. I didn't do too shabby of a job. |
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| And here is the tail end of the salmon, which means this is also the end of my blog post, 😄. |
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