Earlier this summer I made a rag quilt for a friend who's expecting this month (Blackberry photo, color's a little off):
I had only made tiny baby blankets before this one, and I figured that a rag quilt would be an easy road into a bigger, lap-blanket-sized quilt. BOY, WAS I WRONG! Clipping the edges so they get fuzzy took hours longer than stitching would have. But it was soft, and a lot of fun to make.
Earlier this week I finished the top of a pieced quilt for our house-- also lap-sized. (The color is a bit off in the picture, too, but it is a little loud in real life.) There are little owls (what bookish girl doesn't love owls?!), and little trees, and apples-- it's a happy little guy. I've bought varigated oranged thread to quilt, and so when my Dream Green batting order gets in at the quilt store, I'll sew the quilt sandwich together with a scattered leaf pattern. Nice for fall.
GORGEOUS! Yay, you!
ReplyDeleteHow awesome! The quilts are beautiful! How/where did you learn the technique for the first one? I'd like to try it... Congrats on the quilts- they are fabulous! ~Lillian
ReplyDeleteloud colors are in... saw much of it at a huge quilt show last weekend.
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