the family had 4 kids, 12, 15, 17 and 19, but they asked that we focus on the three youngest children.
i had already started a quilt for myself, just because i really wanted to make a quilt out of elizabeth hartman's new book, the practical guide to patchwork: new basics for the modern quiltmaker. while there were a few patterns in the book that i wasn't so keen on (too traditional for me), i absolutely adored the rest, and went out and bought fabric to make the batch of brownies quilt as soon as i got my copy of the book. since the fabrics were polka dots, i thought they'd be perfect for a 12 yr old girl who likes girly stuff.
frankly, these pictures are embarrassing. i can't remember the last time i took photos that were this bad! but i literally dropped these off 2 minutes after the deadline, and the photos were taken about 15 minutes before that!
![dotty](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5205/5298843071_6f3fc05e5e.jpg)
i used a cotton/poly blend batting, and that was the last time i'll do that! i do like that it was a bit poufier, but it destroyed my hands, they were so incredibly dry after touching it.
![dotty detail](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5299444024_f092364c27.jpg)
i did a small amount of quilting, just around each square. i would have liked to have done more, but i really didn't have the time for it.
![dotty back](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5298841125_812bef01f8.jpg)
the other kids in the family were all boys, which are so much harder to sew for, especially generic boys! (we really weren't given much info about the kids) i had these great fleece blankets from mec, and i decided to use them as the backing/batting on the simpler quilts for the boys and tie them instead of quilting.
this one was done completely out of stash fabrics - the stripe is actually more of a decor weight fabric. i really love how this turned out, and i think it's an awesome pattern to use when you have a focal fabric that you really love and want to emphasize.
![blue stripes](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5048/5299440486_8760ff79fc.jpg)
![blue stripes detail](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5203/5298837335_744efbe602.jpg)
this quilt has a nylony type fabric, but very soft, not slippery, and the solid is a brushed cotton. the plaid matched the backing fleece so perfectly that i had to use it. i like the diamond design of the patchwork - it's based on a much smaller scale quilt pattern, but it really pops on the large scale. i cut 12.5" squares, and after the half square triangles were sewn and pressed, i trimmed them down to 11.5".
![green diamonds](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5008/5299446870_c4080e07ec.jpg)
![green diamonds detail](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5085/5298844157_0d3cd824e9.jpg)
so that's 3 quilts.... and then right before the deadline, i found out that someone else was making the parents a quilt, which left one family member without a quilt... so i made a quilt for the 19 year old as well!
this quilt is made with cottons, and again, the patchwork is a larger scale design based on a smaller scale quilts. i love the zigzag.
![brown zigzag](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5299442020_71c852635d.jpg)
![brown zigzag detail](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5121/5299441112_a686de662a.jpg)
4 comments:
Wow! You are amazing! I only managed one quilt for Christmas and I had planned 4. LOL I'm working on one now since it can be a birthday gift instead of a Christmas gift.
What a wonderful thing to do. Beautiful work!
I assure you, my photos are always worse than those.
I loved the first three quilts in person (esp. the diamonds), and I love the final zig zag. You're good people, Amy - so wonderful of you to donate so much of yourself to this project.
thanks everyone!
i said the other day that i was all charitied out for a while after these quilts, but yesterday i started thinking about another project..
always, if it makes you feel any better, my godson turned 3 last month, and i still haven't started the quilt i was going to make for his birth! ;)
felicity, i'm kinda anal about having photographic record of everything i make, so i'm kinda anal about the photos. these aren't that bad really, but i do think they make the batch of brownies quilt look ridiculously bright!
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