This month I'm working on a "repeat" quilt. This quilt was first made in May 2017, when my great niece asked me to make a baby quilt to gift to a friend. However, her friend recently lost the quilt while she was visiting a zoo! My great niece said her friend was heartbroken and asked if I could attempt to recreate it. Fortunately I still had some of the original fabrics, so away I went!
As I described in
this post, I used the
tutorial by Jenny of Missouri Star Quilt Company and made HSTs galore. I had to change a few fabrics, but overall the colors and placement will be as true to the original as I can get.
Here is the original quilt. Now that I've sewn the HSTs together in strips, I am ready to sew the strips together. I keep getting interrupted by life! But I intend to finish this quilt in the next 10 days (fingers crossed), so I can move on to Christmas sewing!
To challenge myself, I am linking to
Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal.
She lost it while visiting the zoo? I don’t think I have ever heard anything like that before. Lovely, as always Linda. I have seen so many fabulous fall and Halloween fabrics, that I am really tempted to try to make a quilt. When I’ve tried in the past, I did squares, and even though I measured them carefully, cut them carefully, they matched perfectly in the stack, I couldn’t sew them together worth a darn. (A little sewing pun.)
ReplyDeleteI know, that was a very unusual story! Hey I still have trouble sewing squares together. My points are rarely perfect. ;) I still hope you will take a quilting class sometime (since I'm not there to help you - lol!)
DeleteIt must have been devastating for her to lose that special quilt (although I’m glad she was using it). Yea for you being able to replace it with a similar one. I hope that whatever happened to that other quilt, somehow another little kiddie will be cuddled by it.)
ReplyDeleteYes I was glad she was using it also! My great niece said it was in every photo she saw, so I guess she really liked it. I thought the very same thing about hoping some other child got to enjoy it. :)
DeleteWhat a beautiful quilt! I hope they look after this one very carefully!! Christine x
ReplyDeleteHi Christine! Thank you so much for visiting. :)
DeleteSuch a pretty quilt - hope it was fun to make again! Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and good luck with your project!
ReplyDeleteThank you Patty! I appreciate you for hosting OMG.
DeleteI really like that design, Linda! So sweet of you to make her another one!
ReplyDeleteThanks Diann. :)
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