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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Arabella's Quilt

On Sunday, my youngest niece turns 1. I have made all my nieces and nephews a birth "sampler", all cross-stitched. They are very time consuming, so I decided to do Arabella's as a quilt and free-motion the words on. It is my own pattern and I just cut the flowers and leaves out of the fabric before machine appliqueing them down.
Finished quilt hanging in the window.

Close-up (no longer hanging).

Close-up of one of the flowers.

Her name. I didn't write it on the fabric before I did it. I "wrote" it once on scrap fabric and then just did it.

The date.

The back. I really enjoy looking at the back of quilts because you can see all the stitches and how much work went into it; although the white thread doesn't show very well in this picture.

Michelle, I know Athena still needs her sampler. It's up to you if you want it cross-stitched or I can do a quilted one for her too.
In good news, I sold something on Etsy last week. One of my vintage baby quilts has moved to Florida.

2 comments:

  1. Congrats on the quilt sale!

    Grasshopper

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  2. your choice, rachel... this quilted version is very beautiful too! they will all be hanging in separate rooms too, so it really doesn't matter if they 'match' or not.

    i was just admiring your quilting stitches on ellia's fairy/flower quilt, it is so pretty.. do you do all of that free hand?

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