Today is also the day that I have accomplished something I've been wanting to do for years and that is to make each of my children a special quilt. I finished up Anna's quilt early this morning around 12:45. It didn't HAVE to be done on the day, but I wanted it to be done. I'm kind of bad about gifts not arriving on time because of my lack of thinking about how long something may take to be shipped. So since I had control over this, I wanted it done.
This quilt has been growing in my mind for a few years since I saw a picture of one that was similar with this darling matroyshka fabric. I found the fabric on amazon and it came from Japan. I've had it for a couple years but just didn't know where to begin to put it all together. So this fall I decided that I needed to just do it. The original quilt had red and white checked fabric where I have the chevron and the dots. I tried and tried to find the right fabrics but could not find the right gingham. When I found the chevron and dotted fabrics I realized that I really love them even more.
Then I just found some colors similar to the original quilt--a green, a purple and a yellow and a darling turquoise print with which I fell in love. It took me only an afternoon to cut out the strips and sew them together. But it has taken me WEEKS to quilt it on my machine with my new walking foot. I love the finished product. It took much more time than I imagined it would but I'm thankful that I was able to do it myself. There were a few days that I spent 7-8 hours simply quilting.
It was a labor of love. It makes me feel like I truly accomplished something. I hope one day each of my children will appreciate the love and care I have put into each of their quilts.
Here are some pictures I took this morning after I put on a label. Mostly this is for my mom who can look at my blog to see how it turned out.
Enjoy!
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| Love the movement of those zig zags. |
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| The fabric that started it all. Love those little Matroyshka girls.( Ooops, there is still some disappearing ink on those parts that I couldn't see very well because they were so close to the background color.) |
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| It took some imagination to come up with quilting patterns to fill in all of that space. |
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| I added a hand sewn pop of red to this purple. Zippidydoodah. |
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| I like to personalize my labels. This proves that my work is not perfect! :) |
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| Lots and lots of stitches. |
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| Can't wait to give it to her. |
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