Little Trip to Bali Complete

I forgot to do a post about the completion of this baby quilt called Trip to Bali. I did get it done about 4 weeks ago, took the pictures, and put it away.  I had no idea what I was going to do with the completed quilt.  I don't have any babies in my life, none, zip, zero, zilch.  I'm sure you are getting the idea.  

This is a picture of the completed top all laid out flat.  I looks like the elephants are floating in one big circle.  

Some close ups of the center and the elephants, both above and below picture.

For the backing, I used the same fabric that I did for the background on the front.  Then, I chose a dark batik for the binding.  

My daughter in law's sister had a baby boy at the end of March, and my DIL made a baby quilt in blue elephants prints, so she asked if she could also give her this one to match the elephant theme.  So off it went to a wonderful new baby boy! 

Warmest...

"Little Trip to Bali"

I have had this as a UFO for about 4 years.  I was working at a local quilt shop, and saw this in the book, "Keepsake Baby Quilts from Scraps"by Julie Higgins from Clotilde.com.  (See I was liking scrappy quilts for some time now!)

It was my first time using batiks, so I ended up buying lots of fat quarters, and a charm pack.  

I had all of the elephant blocks appliquéd, and the center blocks all cut out.  I went ahead and assembled the center blocks and then went on to make the top.  I also used a batik for the background, which can be hard to find the lighter colors.  

I now have it sandwiched and pinned and working on the quilting.  So far I have done cross hatching in the center, as the blocks are on point.

I chose to do shadow quilting around the elephants.  There are twelve of them, and this part is taking longer than I expected.

Then there were the blank corner blocks and the blank blocks in between the elephant blocks that I needed to do some kind of quilting, as that was lots of big spaces.  

So I took the original stencils of the elephant, and outlined it on each block and just did a stitching around the outline.  

It's a little hard to see when taking pictures, but it finished out these blank spaces just perfect.

I have about three elephants to do the shadow quilting, and then I will be able to get it bound and another one will be completed.

I'll be back with finished pictures in a few days.  

Warmest...