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Breaking News! Secret Family Craft Project Revealed!
Rachel (my cousin) and I made a quilt for Sarah (her sister/mycousin) and Jake as a wedding present.
It's your standard Log Cabin quilt done in the barn raising setting.
We picked out the fabrics together Thursday night. Most of the fabric (including the backing) is from the City Girl by Kitty Yoshida for Benartex line. The center pink/white is a Michael Miller fabric and the darkest dark is obviously just a random purple batik. The "first light" fabric was a super LARGE scale print so it looks really different in each block. Which we now claim was, of course, our plan.
Pieced all the blocks on Saturday (both sewing, 2 machines).
Pieced the blocks together into the top, pieced the back, sandwiched and basted it on Sunday.
Monday & Tuesday I did as much quilting as I could get done. Wednesday night Rachel quilted.
Thursday I made the binding strips and sewed them down, took them over to Rachel's, taught her to blind stitch and did as much as we could that night. And Rachel continued blindstitching it on the plane to England!
It's 85 x 85 / a square queen. Strip pieced with 2.5 inch strips, using Eleanor Burns method from the quilt in a day book.
It's already been presented to the happy couple although the weddin' isn't until the 31st. Yay!! :) (Sarah, I'm so glad you like it!)
Yay!!!
Comments
Totally awesome. How do I get adopted into your family?
so wonderful! And not only is the quilt special, I love the tag team making of it also.
Wow Carolyn. All your quilts are beautiful, but this one is my favorite. Lucky cousin.
Beautiful!!
Love it. You guys done good.
You already know that I adore it! I am obsessed with trying to quilt again after seeing it. Though I must say that the pictures just can't truly do it justice. Amazing!
WOW! That is gorgeous! Maybe if I had someone to quilt with, it wouldn't take me 10,000 years to finish a quilt. Probably not, but a girl can dream.
(Hope you had a rawkin' time at Pitchfork!)
WOW. Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. It's the most beautiful quilt I've ever seen. I mean, you know how I feel about purple in the first place. Fabrics and pattern are just gorgeous.
holy moly! that is one amazing quilt! I am super duper impressed. girl, you should quilt a little more often (instead of laying on the living room floor). cuz when you do, WOW!!! that fabric on the back is amazing. I love it all.
omg, that is outstanding.
wow, i see why it was hard to part with, it totally would have matched your curtains :) beautiful and very timely, kudos man!
That's definitely worth a "Yay!" or two. Really lovely. And I love how the simple quilting you did really adds extra depth -- a little like a log cabin made of bricks.
Best wedding present ever!
Sorry I missed it in person. BUT I do have a 17 hour Chicago layover DOWNTOWN on 8/10. Cupcakes? Chicken Hut?
That's awesome! It's so beautiful.
how freaking awesome is that? it's so pretty. purple is my favorite color so i am drooling over that quilt.
It's beautiful! You both did a great job and in such a short time.
it's gorgeous!!!