My niece had a baby shower on September 1st and requested a forest animal quilt. Of course I was happy to do it!
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| I found a cute panel with the animal blocks and since there were 4 (actually 8, but each had a duplicate) I thought a 9 patch would be the way to go. I was in a rush (as usual) and my mind was whirring and thinking what to create?? While it's horrible to have the pressure of a deadline, it seems I need that pressure to stimulate my creativity! |
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| You can barely see the panel above and this is coordinating fabric, which I didn't end up using so still need to make an accessory with it. |
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| When I went into the quilt store (Quilt Expressions, Boise, ID) I asked for ideas and the clerk gave me this pattern called The 5 minute quilt block (or something like that). It really would've been a pretty quick quilt had I used that coordinating fabric for these blocks but instead wanted to make some forest blocks, each with their own forest animal. Here is an owl. |
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| I made a block with the lighter color blue sky but it really needed a dark sky to contrast with the moon, so I remade it with a dark sky, even though it sort of doesn't match the other blocks. |
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| Here we have a braying deer behind a pine tree and a frolicking bunny. |
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| I love the little fox cubs in the den. And you can see I made the trees with the upside down flying geese, like the ones in the coordinating fabric. |
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| And a bear over on the mountain. |
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| The blocks all sewn together. |
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| And all quilted. you can't really tell but I quilted a pine tree, moose, deer, bear pantograph that looks pretty neat. |
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Here you can see some details of the pantograph.
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All complete laying by the pool at my niece's in laws lovely home, where they had the shower. My niece said her husband loved this gift best of all!
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 | | Here is the free pattern I got at Quilt Expressions in Boise |
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My coworker, Jen had been preparing for her wedding for a year. A couple months before the day, I asked about her dress and veil. She said she wasn't going to have a veil because they were expensive and she couldn't find one she liked anyway.
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| I told her I could make one for her. She picked a very simple style, just a big circle of tulle and I sewed a trim along the bottom to finish it off. She looks beautiful! |
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