This is a baby quilt that I made for a friend earlier this month. It is a pattern from Sew Fresh Quilts. The pattern was done as a sew-a-long in 2015 and can be found under the Quilt Alongs tab.
The directions were very easy to follow. I did opt to only use two different dog faces since my goal was to have dogs that looked like Mandy's Boston Terrier. It only took two weekends to put the top and back together. All of the fabric was from my stash.
I couldn't resist putting a row of puppy dog tracks on the backside of the quilt. The white square on the left side is a color catcher. With baby quilts I would rather them be able to wash it in their own detergent than use mine. But every first wash needs a color catcher which can easily be paper clipped to the side.
This is Mandy opening the quilt at her baby shower. I was kind and didn't post the picture of her bawling her eyes out. A quilting success!
The picture above however, is NOT a quilting success. This is the back of a quilt that is still on my sisters Longarm. Blogger insists that Longarm be capitalized. The words that I was saying when this occurred were capitalized and had lots of asterisks and other symbols. When it was all said and done the machine had to go to the machine doctor and have the timing reset. I still have no idea what happened. That machine and I don't get along very well. Which is so sad because I had great hopes of quilting a lot of the tops just sitting folded up at my house.
The girls and Victoria came by my work a couple of weeks ago. We walked up and down the sidewalks in downtown Topeka. Topeka has installed quite a bit of artwork, statues, fountains, etc.
along a four or five block section. I've been wanting to get out there with the girls for quite a while. I'm glad we were able to. Allison did just what I expected her to - she climbed on everything. When I took this picture Grace said "I'm sitting in his lap." and laughed with a bit of embarrassment.
Happy Friday,
Julie
The directions were very easy to follow. I did opt to only use two different dog faces since my goal was to have dogs that looked like Mandy's Boston Terrier. It only took two weekends to put the top and back together. All of the fabric was from my stash.
I couldn't resist putting a row of puppy dog tracks on the backside of the quilt. The white square on the left side is a color catcher. With baby quilts I would rather them be able to wash it in their own detergent than use mine. But every first wash needs a color catcher which can easily be paper clipped to the side.
This is Mandy opening the quilt at her baby shower. I was kind and didn't post the picture of her bawling her eyes out. A quilting success!
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| Grace and Allison |
along a four or five block section. I've been wanting to get out there with the girls for quite a while. I'm glad we were able to. Allison did just what I expected her to - she climbed on everything. When I took this picture Grace said "I'm sitting in his lap." and laughed with a bit of embarrassment.
Happy Friday,
Julie
