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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Another Favorite


okay, I realllllly love this one, probably one of my top 3 favorites that I have made. I love this one because the bright colors. It is just fun. I originally started this quilt with the intention on using just one block pattern through. I had rented a book from the library, Carol Doak's 300 paper pieced blocks, which I failed to return and found out that I owed $50 for it! Totally worth it though! I was so excited to start paper piecing. The only problem was that when I finished my first block, I didn't want to do the same one again because there were so many other blocks in the book that I wanted to try which actually worked out great in the long run, I got to make 9 different blocks and it produced a very cool quilt. I made this for my brother-in-law and his wife for their baby, Gwenyth. I really hope she enjoys it as much as I did making it.
Here is a close up of one of the blocks, you can kinda see my quilting - I wanted to keep it geometric feeling with the quilting and didn't want to distort the block with meandering. I really like the way the quilting came out. I used a water soluble pen to mark where to sew.
Another quilt block. Most of my fabrics in this quilt came from Joann's - gotta love the 99 cent fat quarters!

The flannel backing


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