Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Finished Product

YAY!! I finished the quilt top! And, I finished it minutes before the Super Bowl started on Sunday. It was the best day ever!


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Then, yesterday, I put the quilt on the Gammil. Lola and I share the Gammil, except that I am a quilt machine hog so I use it more!

This is a picture of the Gammil.
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This is the quilt on the Gammil.
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This is how I quilted the quilt. In the small 9 patch blocks surrounded by the brown border, I quilted a heart in the center.
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In the six inch squares (diagonal print) I quilted a flower with spiraling center.
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Over the rest of the quilt I just did loops. That is my favorite quilt stitch, because it is easy without looking dumb and cheap.
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The fabrics I used are from the All You Need is Love collection by Deb Strain for Moda, and the Flirtations collection by Sandy Gervais for Moda. I absolutely loved these fabrics when I saw them together in the store, and knew I had to make a quilt out of them!

The pattern I used was from December's issue of McCall's Quick Quilts. The pattern was called Baby's First Christmas, and it originally used Sandy Gervais's fabrics from her Holly Jolly collection for Moda. I did this quilt in similar fabrics (my local quilt shop didn't get that fabric line in), and it was so much fun and so stinkin' cute that I used these cute girly prints instead!

Now, all I have to do is bind the quilt! I have the binding sewn together, and attached to the quilt. All I have to do is blind stitch it on. Wish me luck!




4 comments:

Jana Nielson said...

Brilliant! Buck up and bind till you're blind, blonde!

Nanette Merrill said...

Its just darling. I love it.

Anonymous said...

How cute is that!! How come you used all the cute fabrics in one quilt? hehe Nice quilting..

DAJP said...

Holy cow Jo! You are amazing, I didn't know you sewed and could make quilts. That's so cool. I love to sew, I've made a few blankets, but can't wait till the day I can make another one. Good job! It is so cute. Love ya tons. Amber