Caitlin's Quilt

This is the most difficult quilt I've ever made.
And I'm STILL not satisfied.
But I made it for Caitlin's birthday and my dead line was more than up. :)

This picture was the inspiration.
How lucky is it that this girl puts pictures of her closet on facebook?
I tried to match colors for colors to capture the closet on the quilt.
It proved to be much more difficult than I thought.

^^This was the most fun square, and definitely the most defining.^^

^^This was the most difficult square. Admittedly, I gave up on it.
The bottom was supposed to be sticking out--like it is in real life!^^

The back says "Summer '10" It is so hard to hand write with thread but I love to do it.

And I love the look.

Ok. So I got to meet Jonathan's entire family. Which is always terrifying.
But nothing wins a family over like cookies in a cute little apple box.

I emptied the box of its apples and lined it with some paper grocery bags.
But I couldn't get the paper bag to stop flapping up and around and every uglywhere.
Since glue is rarely reliable
I tacked it down.

But silver didn't match so I had to paint my thumbtacks red.


This project requires a full counter top.

Pumpkin Cookies are the BEST in the fall.
The frosting is equal parts
Powered Sugar
Brown Sugar
Butter

I filled the box with cookies and apples and headed out to camp.
And! As it turns out his family loves cookies. Thank God.
Because I like them.

Most fun quilt ever!

This is actually the first quilt I have ever started, around 13 years old. I gave it up pretty quick.

Circles are hard!

But I finished it when I was 20. So...7 year quilt. It probably won't last that long being that it was crafted carelessly. I was so focused on playing with it when I was done working on it that I didn't design it for play-traffic.

But it's cute and a classic. Now I just need to make a board!

:)

First Quilt Ever Finished!

Mania and motivation conceived the first quilt I've ever made. Suddenly, once upon a lunch break wandering JoAnn Fabrics, I realized I wanted to. I grabbed some material and went back to work, where my mind receded from selling blinds and formulated The Snowman.

Every square was stenciled by a scrap piece of cardboard.
Every inch is sewn by hand except for the inside of the border on one side.

I wasn't on a pilgrimage to sew a quilt by hand, I just hated my sewing machine.

Immensely.

I started this quilt in October and finished in December just in time for my mom's birthday.
*Literally, in the nick of time--the last stitches went in as she was blowing out candles.*

She loved it!
And I loved making it, which led immediately to work on the next. (The Peace Sign one)