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The Cowboy Quilt
I made this quilt for Stacy--a lady I used to clean for. She was having her 3rd baby and told me that she had wanted her mom to make a baby quilt but her mom said no. So I volunteered to make her one. The theme for her nursery was cowboy...so this is what I came up with. I made up the pattern for the border, and used the cutest little scrapbook picture from My Minds Eye that I enlarged for the center. I learned a lot of things about making up my own patterns, and I became a big fan of applique!
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I found the fringe at Joann's and all the outlining and details are done with a super tight zig-zag. (The rope took forever!) A lady at my work did most of the quilting (it was my first time using a long arm machine and I was a little scared of it--I thought I was really going to mess it up--so she did most of it for me).
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The Giraffe Quilt
This quilt actually started out as "the bug quilt". I found these 3 cute little bug pictures that I wanted to put on a quilt, but they were kinda small, and I couldn't figure out how to make them look cute as appliques - so I used fabric paint and painted them on white fabric and made this quilt up around them...but I didn't love it. So I threw it in the closet and let it sit for a while. Then one day I decided that a giraffe would be the perfect thing to put in the middle of this quilt! So I yanked out the bugs and replaced them with a giraffe. I still have this quilt, since I made it for no one in particular. Below is a girly version of it that I helped one of my friends make.
Butterfly Flower Quilt
This is my first commissioned quilt ;) I made it for my grandma who wanted it as a Christmas present for my little brother and his wife who were having a little girl. (I think my cute grandma just wanted an excuse to give me money--I would have done it for free!)
It is very similar to this quilt I made for my daughter, I just used bolder colors and added butterflies to the border.
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The Clock Quilt
This is an Amy Bradley design. I made this for my daughter.
I had WAY too much fun quilting this one. For the border squares, I printed numbers out in Word, cut them out, taped them to the fabric and used a ruler to go around them. Fun, fun!
Baby Alien Quilt
This is another Amy Bradley design...sort of...the original pattern makes a twin sized quilt (I have the twin sized top finished...waiting to be quilted...) but I decided to make it into a baby quilt...so I reduced the aliens on the copy machine, changed the layout, added the checkered border, and the rocket ship. It was for my nephew, Jason.
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The Sheep Quilt
This is another quilt I made for my first baby...the pattern is Slide show by Atkinson designs. I wish you could see the sheep better...they are quilted into the big squares.
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