Super Mario QAL: finished!

All finished!

The details;

• All material is Prima quilting cotton from Spotlight and the wadding is low loft Bamboo also from Spotlight.
• The blocks are from Cut to Pieces Mario quilt-along and I constructed them using a thin interfacing method from here .
• Quilting is an allover loopy free motion stitch using a light grey cotton thread.

I found it pretty painstaking, cutting the interfacing apart so I could iron the seams open and flat took forever! But I am really happy with how it looks and I have all the materials to make another one for me.....maybe next year sometime!

Its an early Christmas present for my son who is a huge Mario fan (gets it from me, I still have the original Super Nintendo and games from the 1990's and the only computer game I play now is the Mario galaxy games :)

Mario QAL: Koopa shell, red and green mushroom and star blocks

I did a big push this week to get all the blocks done, just have to add sashing and the front it completed. Its going to end up a big quilt, about 2mx2m finished! A lot bigger than I thought when I started.

Mario QAL: Shy Guy, Pipe, Question mark and Fire flower block

A quick catchup on the Mario quilt - 9 blocks down, 4 to go! I'm really pushing to get this done at the moment as it's meant to be one of my Son's christmas presents! Still not sure on how I'm going to quilt it, I'm thinking about stitching in the ditch around each character and then free motion quilting the aqua background - Anyone have any ideas?

Mario Quilt Along: Yoshi

This is a block thats not included in the quilt along but my Son's favourtie character is Yoshi so I wanted to make him one.
Its about half again as big as the other blocks so I'm not quite sure how it will look in the end, I'd like to do this as a centre block and the smaller ones around the outside but will wait until they're all made and lay it out first.

I have been doing some normal sewing as well - I've started working on my pants block with Steph from 3 hours past and I've been working on a velvet jacket for my Mum.

Mario Quilt Along: Goomba and Cloud

Goomba and cloud finished! The grey on the cloud is a bit darker than I'd like but it was the only grey I could find.
I've found if I pin them straight while I iron the seams open it doesn't warp as much as well :)

Mario Quilt Sewalong: Mario and Luigi

I am so excited about this quilt! I was a huge Super Mario fan when I was younger (and still play it a bit now) so to see this quilt then find out Cut to Pieces is doing a quilt-along is so cool!

I couldn't find any of the Pellon stick n washaway locally so used a thin interfacing and pieced the blocks like Oh, Fransson! showed with her Postage stamp quilt.

The mario block is a little twisted, I had the iron on too hot and it shrunk and warped the interfacing a bit.....Not sure if I'll redo it or not yet. I found I had to dampen both of the blocks at the end and pin them straight then iron and starch them as they had twisted a bit (I think it was from ironing the seams out flat?).

I've got a bit of catching up to do (the goomba and cloud block) but they go together pretty quickly (I pre-cut all my material) and its kind of feels like doing a jigsaw puzzle to begin with, the ironing is pretty painstaking though!