TTMT #473 - jewells68 - July 18, 2023 - TamaWow! The Race to the Finish

In which I talking about being close to finishing the Tamagotchi quilt, which is currently on my moxie's loft quilt frame, for my great niece. Making this monster of a tamagotchi has been a real adventure, from learning how to design a pixel quilt in EQ8 to be the "screen", then designing the giant paper pieced "egg" border in EQ8, to printing out all 100ish pages of the paper pieced border pattern and then joining them all together (took a combination of gluestick, a light pad, and more than an entire roll of masking tape). From figuring out how to insert the pixel quilt into the center and then piecing a GIANT paper pieced egg frame pattern (hint, I had to put a folding table behind my sewing table to help keep it from falling off the machine and table and use a metal yard stick instead of a post card to fold the pattern over the lines) to deciding which of the designs from the faceplate I wanted to reproduce from sparkly fabric for appliques to decorate the faceplate, and using every bit of double-sided, fusible, sew-able stabilizer I had lying around to make them into iron-on appliques, and finally figuring out how I was going to quilt it. I truly hope my great-niece cherishes it for many years to come. Regardless, the skills I learned (and the things I learned about myself) throughout the entire process of making this gift are truly priceless to me. I will make sure to get photos once it's finished, even if the finished quilt doesn't make it into my next video. Stay crafty y'all... and what's that old saying? "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."