Quilting the Cheese

This morning I went ahead and started quilting my freaky Lutradur portrait from this post.

I free motion stitched around all the details and added texture to my hair. It’s hard to quilt curly hair without looking like Medusa and to stitch a shadow on your double chin without looking like a beard, but all in all the stitching made the portrait come alive. I have to unstitch some stitches around the nose that does not look quite right, but I’m letting them rest until tomorrow. It was so much fun quilting this thing!
The grey stripes over and under the picture says SAYING CHEESE SAYING CHEESE SAYING CHEESE…, I guess the name of this piece is a given.

My sister is turning 50 soon, so I’m thinking of making her a smaller portrait for her birthday (of her obviously, not me). I would also love to make a new one of my daughter and of course my adorable-soon-to-be-3-year-old grandson. Well, I’ll see if my attention lasts that long or if I’m off to new adventures when I’m done with this.

This will probably be the last progress report as we have been asked to not post pictures of the finished projects until the end of the project in the end of June. If you haven’t already signed up for Bumble Beans’ Say Cheese Challenge, have a look at all the creativity going on at the challenge blog.