By the Sea Finish

 A dear friend of mine has a beach house

in the Outer Banks and has invited me to join her

a number of times over the years.

 

I had pulled the beach/sea fabric to play with

and decided to make this friend a quilt for her beach house.

I was amazed that I had all of the fabrics in my

stash except for the striped backing fabric I used. 

 

 

 

 

 

For this quilt, I kept the quilting very simple.

 

 

 

 

 

I did want to do a little something in the peach squares

and stitched a starfish in the middle of each one.

 

 

 

 

 

I have used the frixion pens for years

and have had no problems with them, 

except on solid fabrics.

(They leave a bleach line on solid fabrics.) 

Before using it on this quilt,

I tested it on a piece of the peach fabric

and it ironed out perfectly,

so I traced the starfish on the first block and stitched it.

When I ironed it out,

these lines were left on the fabric.

They are lighter in person than they are

in the photo, but they are still noticeable. 

I debated on what to do about the lines

and decided to just leave them.

Anything I would do to correct it

would be more noticeable than the lines.
I don't know why this happened,

but I'm going to have to be very selective

when using these pens. 

 

We live and learn!

 

Happy Quilting!