Finished wallhanging |
This post is a little late coming out but I forgot to take a photo of the finished product. I finally got around to asking my daughter-in-law to take a few photos for me.
Templates taped in place |
This is the fourth one I have made and fortunately I did find the notes I took while making the others. I printed out templates of his name and date of his Christening. I had saved the templates from the other parts from the previous wall hangings.
Backing and batting ready |
I cut the center piece slightly larger than my desired finished size in case there was any uptake of the fabric while embroidering. I taped the templates in place with painter's tape. I then hooped sticky paper and just laid the piece on top. After embroidering, I cut it to size and added the three borders.
Front piece smoothed in place |
I cut my backing and batting also larger than needed. I smoothed the backing fabric onto my cutting table and then smother the batting on top. I then laid on the finished front piece and pinned all around.
Pinned and ready to cut |
I placed my pins parallel to the cutting edge, this made it easy to trim around. After trimming the backing and batting I added my binding. I stitched it to the back and then brought it around to the front where I topstitched it in place. When I do bed quilts, I sew the binding to the front and hand stitch it in place form the back.
Cutting to size |
I then did a little quilting around the shell design and around the edge of the center piece. Because this is a wall hanging and probably will never be washed, this is enough to keep everything together.
Embroidery details |
The shell design is from Embroidery Library as is the God Bless You design. The lettering is from my MasterWorks program that I use. I hope you enjoyed seeing another version of a Christening wall hanging. Here are two others Maggie's and Colton's
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