Yes, it's been a while. However, I did make a quilt in the past few months.
My niece and grand-niece came to visit, so I bought a used toddler bed for the grand-niece, who is 2 years old. I then made a quilt for her. She likes Hello Kitty! so I bought some fabric with the famous kitty on it.
I wanted it to be a row quilt, so it's sort of improvised. All the rows are 5 inches wide. I made two rows of pinwheels, 2 rows of 5 inch blocks, 2 rows of stripped blocks, 2 rows of Hello Kitty! fabric, and then WOW fabrics between each row. On the row at the top (Hello Kitty) I put a pink and white lace ruffle between the HK fabric and the WOW fabric.
The matching pillow case was WOW fabric measured to fit a travel pillow, with a Hello Kitty! border and more lace.
And then, I went to my computer and into Microsoft Word, chose the Edwardian Script font, spelled out her name, blew it up to 300 (it came out on 2 pages it was so large), stuck it under the SECOND row of WOW fabric and lightly sketched her name with a #2 pencil onto the top of the fabric. Then I hand-embroidered her name in a light blue, thin crochet thread, using a straightline stitch.
I used batting, and backed it with a pretty flannel print. The binding is more of the HK fabric. About a foot of the quilt is tucked under so you can't see the other rows.
She knew the bed was for her...here is Cheyenne, sleeping under her new quilt.
StashBusting:
About 1 yard of various fabrics
A piece of batting left over from another project
1/2 spool of white thread
New fabrics:
1 fat quarter bundle of 5 fabrics (the pinks)
1 yard HK fabric
1 yard flannel
1 spool of new thread
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