Sunday, August 12, 2012

My First Quilt

Now that Clark is approaching 2, I thought it would be a good time to finish the quilt I started for him shortly after he was born. My mother-in-law, an avid quilter, made a blanket like this for my nephew just barely younger than Clark. She saw how much I liked what she had made and encouraged me to put one together myself, even giving me her leftover supplies (pattern from ohfransson.com). I finished the top and back a long time ago (a year?), but stopped short of quilting it since I didn't know how. Recently I decided the thing wasn't going to quilt itself so I sat down and stippled it one day. I guess there's no better way to learn free motion quilting than to do it! After watching plenty of YouTube videos and getting tips from Google, obviously...

1 comments:

Aubrey Harris said...

Wow! This turned out so well!