My Favourite Book Is... - Robyn - "Steam and Bubbles"

I don't have one favourite book so I've chosen a book which my granddaughters like me reading to them. It is called
"Marmaduke Duck and The Marmalade Jam", written by Juliette MacIver and illustrated by Sarah Davis.
http://sarah-davis.org/marmaduke-duck1/

 The jar of marmalade was made by cutting up pieces of yellow and orange fabric and placing them, along with a few strands of angelina fibres, on a grey fabric overlaid with fine black tulle. This was then stitched with an angular meander stitch and the jar was cut using a paper template. I then cut out some webbed feet. The background fabric was chosen for no other reason than I liked it. The jar was stitched on and the feet fused and stitched.

At this point I came to a standstill because I really couldn't think of a way to quilt this quilt. Eventually I just followed some of the lines that were in the background fabric and ended up with a poor rendition of the flame quilting design. Before long I decided that I didn't want to do this over the whole quilt so I added some large segmented circles to represent citrus slices. The two designs in isolation were OK but they needed something to tie them together... a simple meander might have worked but I love the look of pebbles and so the quilting became the boiling, bubbling pan of marmalade. The quilt  has a simple binding, same fabric as the background. I usually free motion quilt with the feed dogs down, it wasn't until I was putting the binding on that I realised I had forgotten to drop them. Just goes to show you can free motion with the dogs up or down.