Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2011

Welcome to my Fall 2011 Blogger's Quilt Festival entry!  I'm excited to be participating in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival again.

This is the second quilt I've finished this year and my first blog entry of the year.  After making four quilts in less than a month last year for Christmas, I thought I'd take a break.  It turned out to be a little longer than I thought.  But I'm feeling creative again and this quilt is a little bit of a triumph for me.

I bought this fabric with my mom in mind.  She saw some other red and turquoise fabric that she liked so I thought I would get this bundle and create a quilt for her for Christmas.  Unfortunately I made a huge mistake in my calculations and didn't half even half as much as I thought.  I had my squares all cut out and threw them in a drawer.  I was so upset with myself.  

About a month ago, I was working on another project and for some reason I had this fabric sitting on the table.  All of a sudden I knew how to put them together to make a big enough baby quilt for a friend who had just had a little girl.  I'm so happy that I was able to figure out a way to use these beautiful fabrics and turn my mistake into a success (to me anyway).

The backing is a super soft flannel that I found at Hancock's and I'm so glad that it coordinated well.  I seemed to have a hard time finding anything that would go with these aqua colors.

The pictures are not great because I finished this quilt with minutes to spare before heading over to my friend's house with dinner and this as a gift.  I was getting ready to take it outside for a quick photo shoot when it started thundering and raining.  So, indoors it was.  With my kids trying to help.  In the last photo, my son took the picture while I held it up, but I love how my daughter was in the frame, taking a picture with her camera too! 

This quilt was the first quilt that I sewed the binding on with the machine on both sides.  I usually hand sew the binding and I really like that process, but did I mention I finished with minutes to spare?  

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my quilt.  Hopefully I'll have more to show soon with a few other quilts, but I won't be working so frantically close to Christmas this year!