Sunbonnet Sam
Well, after doing Sunbonnet Sue I just had to do Sunbonnet Sam and of course I couldn't do the same old thing with him either.
If you read my post on Sunbonnet Sue you already know I didn't want to do a conventional technique with her and the same goes with Sam.
Since I did candlewicking with Sue I decided to do a simple embroidery with Sam.
Tracking down Sunbonnet Sam was actually the hard part since there are not that many good photo's of him around.
I did manage to track down 6 pictures of him in a sports motif which I decided to use 4 of.
The 4 I chose to use are Baseball, Basketball, Football and Soccer.
The other 2 that I have are Bowling and Golf.
And it goes without saying that since I did a basic 9 patch with Sue that this would not do for Sam, so I decided to place Sam's blocks on point.
I placed the pictures of Sam over a light source and simply traced around the outside of the photo's and decided what I did and did not want to embroider.
Of course I did stick somewhat to Sam's traditional look which includes his hat and of course his suspenders.
( Wanted to make sure he still kept his traditional look even with my unconventional ways) While I was doing the embroidery though I did take some liberties with the colors.
For instant, my roots are deep in Wisconsin so I had the football Sam wear the good old green and gold colors to represent the Packers.
Since I veered off color with the football Sam I went ahead and chose different colors for the others as well.
For the fabric I chose a sports print and a colorful coordinating fabric for the back also.
I used a white background fabric to trace Sam onto and since I am placing Sam on point with only 4 embroidered squares I need a 5th square for the center and of course setting triangles and corners.
I plan on using the white fabric combined with the sports fabric to make the 5th square for in the center and then using the sports fabric for the setting triangles and the corners.
All in all this quilt is going to be both traditional and unconventional.
I also plan on finishing Sam the same way I did for Sue.
With Sunbonnet Sue I used a high loft batting and made a quilt sandwich, batting down,backing next (right side up) then the top (right side down) and stitched all the way around leaving an opening on the bottom to turn the quilt inside out.
Next I just sewed up the bottom and hand tied bows to the top.
With Sunbonnet Sam I will be using some sports buttons I found and sew them on by hand to finish the quilting.
Doing both Sunbonnet Sue and Sam has been a great pleasure to me and doing both of them in ways that I have not seen done before has been very fulfilling to me.
I like to think of myself as unique and I like to see my quilting the same way.
I spend a lot of time thinking outside the box when I see a quilt pattern and as I have said before I think everyone should.
If you read my post on Sunbonnet Sue you already know I didn't want to do a conventional technique with her and the same goes with Sam.
Since I did candlewicking with Sue I decided to do a simple embroidery with Sam.
Tracking down Sunbonnet Sam was actually the hard part since there are not that many good photo's of him around.
I did manage to track down 6 pictures of him in a sports motif which I decided to use 4 of.
The 4 I chose to use are Baseball, Basketball, Football and Soccer.
The other 2 that I have are Bowling and Golf.
And it goes without saying that since I did a basic 9 patch with Sue that this would not do for Sam, so I decided to place Sam's blocks on point.
I placed the pictures of Sam over a light source and simply traced around the outside of the photo's and decided what I did and did not want to embroider.
Of course I did stick somewhat to Sam's traditional look which includes his hat and of course his suspenders.
( Wanted to make sure he still kept his traditional look even with my unconventional ways) While I was doing the embroidery though I did take some liberties with the colors.
For instant, my roots are deep in Wisconsin so I had the football Sam wear the good old green and gold colors to represent the Packers.
Since I veered off color with the football Sam I went ahead and chose different colors for the others as well.
For the fabric I chose a sports print and a colorful coordinating fabric for the back also.
I used a white background fabric to trace Sam onto and since I am placing Sam on point with only 4 embroidered squares I need a 5th square for the center and of course setting triangles and corners.
I plan on using the white fabric combined with the sports fabric to make the 5th square for in the center and then using the sports fabric for the setting triangles and the corners.
All in all this quilt is going to be both traditional and unconventional.
I also plan on finishing Sam the same way I did for Sue.
With Sunbonnet Sue I used a high loft batting and made a quilt sandwich, batting down,backing next (right side up) then the top (right side down) and stitched all the way around leaving an opening on the bottom to turn the quilt inside out.
Next I just sewed up the bottom and hand tied bows to the top.
With Sunbonnet Sam I will be using some sports buttons I found and sew them on by hand to finish the quilting.
Doing both Sunbonnet Sue and Sam has been a great pleasure to me and doing both of them in ways that I have not seen done before has been very fulfilling to me.
I like to think of myself as unique and I like to see my quilting the same way.
I spend a lot of time thinking outside the box when I see a quilt pattern and as I have said before I think everyone should.
