EEEEEKK! My first truely-completed-quilted quilt!

November 10th, 2009

Mr. A is now seven months, and it is difficult to ignore the irony that I finished his small roll-around-on-the-floor-and-spit-up-on-it quilt the exact day he pretty much started officially crawling… that is to say moving his feet AND hands. In my defense it has been 90% finished for MONTHS, it just needed the quilting and binding but my we little Brother machine decided that it was not capable of such fancy things! BUT the fantastic news is that I got a dream machine out of the deal, so lets just say this is one very expensive baby quilt!

I wanted it to be unmistakably boy, and when searching my stash this is what I came up with, along with the realization that I don’t have much that can be used for a boy! I have plenty of almost boy stuff, but designers throw in a small flourish, a token flower or something that just tips the scale, for me, even though they are “boy ” colors. The final measurements are 21.5” x 27.”

and the back…

Out of complete inexperience and probably a bit of ignorance I had the “brilliant” idea to embroider the back to coordinate with Mr. A’s announcements. This meant I really had no choice but to do some free motion quilting and figure out how to stipple, and you know what? I love how it turned out, I think I am going to try to do this again, and I highly recommend it!

categories quilts, stitchy by hand | 3 comments so far!

3 Responses to “EEEEEKK! My first truely-completed-quilted quilt!”

Comment by Cristin
November 10, 2009 1:02pm

WELL DONE!!! I finally mastered stippling last spring and now I love it!!! This is so cute… maybe have to try the embroidery for my little boy arriving in March, gotta make him a quilt or two =)
GREAT fabric choices too, btw! Simple and modern, yay!
Comment by My New Book – Quilts, Baby! «
November 16, 2009 12:20pm

[...] I’m not able to find any previews of the inside of the book, I’ll just direct you to my friend’s blog instead, where she recently made her first quilt, complete with hand embroidery of the same style [...]
Comment by Lauren Hawley
December 29, 2009 12:05pm

Emily this quilt is gorgeous! I LOVE the embroidery you did.

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