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A few weeks ago, my cousin contacted me about making her granddaughter a quilt for Christmas.  We chatted some and I thought it would be a simple task. The more we chatted, the more the project evolved and I felt I wouldn't have enough time to complete it for Christmas.

My cousin's daughter likes owls and she wanted me to make an owl quilt for her granddaughter.  I've had a pattern pinned to one of my Pinterest boards for a while but never had a reason to order and make it - now I do.  I sent her the link to the pattern and she loved it.  I made one owl and turned it into a throw pillow.  The quilt will come early next year when I have more time.  

It is adorable, if I do say so myself.   :)

She didn't want super bright so I went with a gray slate colored solid; the pillow is backed in the same.  Other than purchasing the solid and the pillow form, everything is out of my stash.  I machine appliqued the whole thing, backed the block with some batting and backing so that the threads were covered.  I did a quilted outline around the owl with dark gray thread.  Could have done a bit better job with that idea but with the dark thread and dark background, you can't really see it.  

Once I send it off to Florida, I will make sure this is what she wants for a quilt and get started.  If not, there is super, super cute owl fabric at my LQS that I can get and make a simple quilt with that.  I'm sure she will love the owl though so I should probably start digging in my stash for some color combinations. 

I've been working on another pillow too.  Almost done with it.  It's my "test" pillow.  I plan on making a few for gifts so I wanted to see how it would work out for time and such.  I'll show you soon!

Enjoy your day!

Jen  :)

Quilted Finishes

I received some happy mail in the last week or so.

Snow Sparkle.  I've never showed you this quilt before.  2 years ago, I took a class to make this quilt with a friend of mine.  The quilt shop kitted up the fabric for the class and I went with it.  I don't like batiks at all.  They don't float my boat.  I made the center of the quilt and held off putting the borders on because again, the quilt just didn't do it for me.

When I brought my finish home, both my mother in law and father in law raved about it.  They both loved it.  For my FIL to praise it, he must have really liked it.  I packed it away and forgot about it.  It's been in the back of my mind to get it finished and gift it to them for Christmas.  So I did just that.  I put on the final borders and sent it off to be quilted.

Now I want to keep it for myself!  Jill quilted it in the Glace panto with snowflakes and it is gorgeous!  I'm not going to keep it.  I am going to gift it this Christmas.  Eventually, someday, it will come home to me.

I'm working on hand sewing the binding on but it's slow going.  Being on the computer all day and then trying to work a needle and thread, my hands hurt.  I made pretty good progress with it though.  It will be done for Christmas.

Full House is next.  Mary announced a quilting special on her blog a few weeks ago and I think it was a big hit.  I sent off my Reunion "Full House" Schnibbles and Mary's turn around was super quick!

Here it is hanging in its future home in my dining room when I get the binding on.  This one I'm going to try to machine on 100%.  Just to give my hands a break.  This weekend hopefully.  Mary quilted sweet daisies on it.  I love it.

Thank you ladies!  You did a wonderful job!  More quilting coming your way after the holidays.  I need to build up my quilting fund again.  :)

Enjoy your day!
Jen  :)