Anne’s Creative Threads

After reorganizing my sewing room and tidying up I felt ready to continue with my rain forest quilt so I gathered together a selection of threads and got going. Having moved my sewing machine nearer the window I found I had plenty of light to quilt despite the miserable grey weather outside.

my rain forest threads

Before starting with the coloured threads I outline quilted all the main features using an invisible thread, I then quilted in a trailing leaf pattern between the trees, using a darker coloured variegated cotton in the lower part of the design.

creepers and leaves

I’ve couched some yarn for the creeepers in the top part of the design and here you can see a detail of the quilting. Below you can see the completed design, I have allowed some of the leaves and foliage to spill over into the borders to break up the edges of the quilt. I finished the binding by hand stitching it on the back and then adding a hanging sleeve. Now I just have to find somewhere to hang it.

The finished wall hanging

Some detail shots:

foliage spilling into the border

Fan palms