I was wondering about what to enter into the Quilt Festival at Amy’s Creative Side and I suddenly remembered my ‘old man and the sea’ wall hanging. Unfortunately, I only have dull Winter photos because I made it in December and gave it to my son, who lives by the sea in Portsmouth. I’ve decided to enter it anyway, though, because it’s my favourite small quilt I’ve made.

Who knew you could arrange trimmed dps into a perfect fish shape! Probably everyone but it was a revelation to me. So I found a scrap of paper and scribbled away until I had a seemingly small ocean of fish. Then I did some calculations and discovered that would make a bigger-than-kingsize quilt unless I made 1″ dps, which I wasn’t really up for. So I scaled back and decided to make one fish to start with.
Then I added added some triangles to square up the ‘sea’ and added and an improv curve and a boat…and it was looking very blue, which was good because blue was the colour of the month in the Colour My World Challenge that M-R hosted over at Quilt Matters.

I hope you like my little wall hanging and I hope you enjoy the Festival!
Nicky
I do love it Janine! Almost as much as Elsie Piddock!
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Kristy @ Quiet Play
That is an awesome wall hanging! The quilting is fabulous!
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amy dame
oh wow, there are so many fabulous details in such a small quilt! the knitting was a brilliant idea, as was the fish itself, i love the texty boat and the curves of blue, but the quilting is really what makes it so amazing, it's perfect!
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Karen
I still think you should just give me this mini Janine :) He is so dang cute!
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Benta AtSLIKstitches
Lovely to see it sgain xxx
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pennydog
I like how imaginative this is
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nerospost
Hi Janine! I love your fisherman! It is so creative and well done! You had so great idea to use yarn for the cloths! Perhaps your son could take a photo by the sea with a real fisherman!
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Patti
I'm so happy you entered this one Janine! I just love it!
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Auntie Em
It's wonderful. The stitchery across the water gives it such a sense of movement, but my favorite part is the knitted fisherman's clothes!
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Prof. S (the enchanted bobbin)
I love it! The little details make this so very special — thanks for sharing it :)
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sewfrench.com
I do love all the different uses for the drunkards path pattern!
This is fun, fun, fun!
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Renee
Wow so cute! I love the process you went through and the quilting and knit work!
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CitricSugar
This is awesome! Clever vision. :-) The quilting really makes this quilt. Thanks so much for sharing your process on it, too.
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Jess
I seriously love this quilt Janine, you are so creative with what you make.
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Catherine
What I really love about this is your quilted sea – it's beautiful.
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Archie the wonder dog
Absolutely stunning!!!
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P.
This is brilliant!!!
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Katy Cameron
Hee hee, love this wee guy, especially the newspaper boat :o)
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Soma Acharya
This is one of my favorite mini quilts made by you! I love all the details you added to this one :)
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Pam
love this !! so inspiring …u r such a creative girl! xo
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Lucy @ Charm About You
Me and my entire family adore this (ok I'm not sure about Lois but she smiles at most things!) It is gorgeous!
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Happy Turtle
I love this!!!!
Carol
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Aoife
I love it! Love that you hand-quilted it too :) The tiny knitting is amazing!
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Amy
I love your little old man out to sea! It is just adorable. Love all the hand quilting. It adds so much detail.
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quirky granola girl
the quilting definitely makes this piece amazing.
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Malini
Wow! this is just perfect little wall hanging. I love your fish idea. I might steal it for my baby quilt project. Thank you for the idea!
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leanne
love this little quilt – as soon as I saw it I had to vote as I know just how much detail is in it :) good luck !
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Deborah
I love this – so creative and effective :-)
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Marti
ohmygosh ohmygosh !! Just found this via pinterest and I ADORE it. (yes, I'm shouting). When I first saw this I thought the hat/scarf/etc were french knots. I do not knit. This is truly adorable. I am going to have to try a version of this (just for me and will give you credit for the inspiration). I do embroidery so will have to do the fk instead of knitting. Again, absolutely loovvvve this!
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