Frog Quilt

So Last Thanksgiving I went to visit my sister, and we made pillow cases for her son's troupe which was over in Iraq. While I was there, we perused through her stash of fabric and somehow I managed to finagle out of her a bunch of frog fabric left over from a quilt she had made for her mother-in-law. I brought this home and scanned the fabric into my EQ6 software and started developing quilt blocks. Pretty cool software, you see I only had left overs, so I had to improvise. Then I decided to use crazy quilting for the reverse instead of spending money for fabric.

Turned out great, not exactly like my design but pretty close. I like it better than my star quilt mainly because I did a better job both with the sewing and with the quilting, and it is also cat approved. no sooner than I had finshed basting the back to the front, and folding it up, than Napoleon decided to test it out.

Star Quilt

Last year my sister introduced me to the fun of quilting. Like most things I do, I didn't start with something easy, I picked a star pattern and Asian fabric. Still it turned out OK, my husband wanted to hang it on the wall, but I had made it to be used on our king sized bed, so that's where it currently is.

I got a lot of advice on this quilt, and some of it I followed and others I did not, and wish I had. For instance I have embroideryn the stars, and one friend told me I should quilt around the embroidery. This same friend also said I should use clear thread when doing the actual quilting, and I didn't. So I don't look at the back side because it shows white thread over red material, that totally doesn't match. But it's great to sleep under or over, and it's cat approved.

So here is a close up of the start pattern, if you're interested in seeing more pictures, I have an album on webshots, called My Quilt where I've documented the fabrics, embroidery and layout in pictures.  Enjoy.