Ribbit smart plate quilt applique frog quilt

I saw this fabric and HAD to make a quilt with it, I’ve seen it at JoAnns for a loong time, but finally decided to do something. – a spur of the moment decision, I was supposed to just buy batting and backing when I went, but how can that happen without buying something for another quilt?

So I used the smart plate quilting for another kaleidoscope quilt and this time added a small border, I had planned on just using that fabric for the backing just like the pink one I made, but it just looked so good when I laid it out next to the quilt top, but it was missing something when I sewed the border on!

I took a scrap piece of frog fabric and scanned it and printed it LARGE, I had to split it into 4s in photoshop and print individually and then tape together to make the frog big enough, I did needle turn applique and used ricky timms stable stuff for the stabilizer, no need to remove it, just soaked the corner overnight and dried a day, then quilted it, I did a free form sort of swirly wavy thing in light green and just outlined the frog, so he’s kind of puppy like trapunto.

This was the frog I scanned!

Don’t know yet who’ll get this quilt.