I completed my little Greek Cross quilt for the Doll Quilt Swap. I am pleased with how it turned out, and I hope partner will be happy with it as well. For the binding I used a graph paper fabric. I was thinking of using red, but I thought it was going to be too bold and went for softer instead.
When I first posted the top and asked for quilting suggestions, I had a number of people suggest hand quilting. I really go excited by the idea and even went out and bought some Pearl thread. However, I sat down to start one night, and I decided against it. I just wasn't feeling it. So I took some pretty variegated blue thread and machine quilted around the crosses and diamonds instead. It is subtle, and I think suits the strong pattern.
I did, however, do some hand stitching around the label. I used a note book paper fabric for the label and then stamped on my little message.
Now I just have to wait for the mailing date! *fingers crossed*
9 comments:
absolutely stunning Meg
Perfectly perfect Meg!
looks amazing Meg! Good work!
Darling quilt! Love the backing too AND your label!
Love, love, love this!
I love this, Meg. The graph paper fabric is so neat, and that label is awesome! I think you went the right way machine quilting. I think it looks wonderful.
this is very, very beautiful, i just found it today on flickr and now i am seeing it here again - love!
Your mini quilt is gorgeous!
This is just fantastic. And I like your label. Where did you find stamps with numbers in them? I have stamps about that size but without numbers so it makes it hard to do dates.
And thank you for the patterns. I got them in the mail late last week and look forward to making one of them this fall. My girls' pick is obviously the dog. :)
Oh, one more thing... saw in your recent post that your son isn't walking yet. How old is he? My almost-18 month old (Tessa) isn't walking yet either and at times drives me nuts! (My other two walked at 10-ish months). Tessa also isn't eating 'big people' food either, so I continue to feed her baby food + she'll eat crunchy food like cheerios and crackers. What is it with this third kids??!? :)
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