I was inspired to make this little (10×8) OctoQuilt for Collage Mania after seeing a drawing made by my stepson.   He was making designs that he thought would be good for skateboards!

I fused the octopus body and then fused the legs and the seaweed after weaving them together.  I outlined the octopus parts with a bright orange blanket stitch and ran a satin stitch along the length of the seaweed.   I stitched his eyes with a fat satin stitch.

To give it a quilted finish, I used two shades of blue metallic thread in free-motion waves.  The metallic thread was almost the end of me - it must have broke at least 20 times.  I have the special needles with the larger eye, but for this project they didn’t help at all.

To finish it, I put on a mitered binding and hand-stitched the back side.  All that is left to do is a label, and I’m looking online for a good design for that right now!