Sunday, August 21, 2011

A wedding gift - only a year and a half late

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Most of my friends and family have come to learn that if you get married or have a baby, you're probably going to get a quilt from me as a gift.

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Hopefully they also understand what goes into making a quilt - and the fact that I tend to jump around a bit when it comes to projects - and they may not receive their quilt in a timely manner.  For not-so-newlyweds Chris and Nicole, that means about a year and a half after they tied the knot. 

Thankfully they're still happily married, and I hope to get their quilt in the mail to them this week :)

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I raided my out of control scraps for this quilt, and combined them with a trio of greens and yellows that I thought looked nice together and pieced them to each other on the bias.  For the binding, I used the leftover solids (all Kona, but I can't remember the exact colors).

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I quilted straight lines 1/4" on either side of the patchwork strips, and the backing is a large piece of vintage sheet with some of the solids pieced in (that I didn't get around to photographing since the mosquitoes ate me alive in the 5 minutes I was outside to take these photos).

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What's next on the list?  Quilts for two more wedding couples that haven't received their gifts yet, of course!

20 Weeks

And in other news, this past week I hit my halfway point in my pregnancy.  Twenty weeks down, twenty more to go! (And we still can't agree on a name, lol!)

6 comments:

  1. You look gorgeous and so does the quilt!

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  2. aawww you have a gorgeous bump ;-)) And your quilt is gorgeous to. dee x

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  3. Congrats on the half-way point! Don't stress about the name thing too much. We were bound & determined not to be "one of those people" who went to the hospital without a name, but in the end simply couldn't make a decision. But as soon as he was born, I knew exactly which of the names was right for our little guy.

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  4. This looks great Emily - I like the solids you used and the way you put the strips together. Good work!

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  5. I love all the patchy patterns of this quilt against the simple green tones...very pretty!

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  6. Hi, I just found your blog through a link at Made by Rae. Congrats on the halfway point! I have 4 weeks left in my pregnancy, and we still don't have a name either! Hope the rest of your pregnancy is smooth.

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