The four hour bag

Aaron and I are heading down to Denver this evening to have dinner with his family and give his aunt her new quilt (shown in a previous post). At the last minute I decided that wrapping the quilt up in a used Amazon box didn't do it justice so I made up a quick bag to present the quilt in. 

The bag is made with extra quilt fabric. The solid blue is the same as the quilt's background, the honeycomb blue fabric is the quilt's backing, and the charcoal gray fabric is the same as the quilts connecting lines. The bag is fully lined and has an external pocket on each side. 

Aaron also put together a poster using the photos originally intended for the quilt. I put a snap on two scraps of fabric and wrapped that around the poster. 

Once upon a time: Finished!

It took me a while to remember to ask Aaron to help hold up the quilt for a photo session. Unfortunately, Aaron had some issues with holding up his arms for any period of time which resulted in a lot of giggles and quilt waggling. Many of the pictures were quite blurry due to Aaron jiggling the quilt and whimpering and/or me laughing at him.

I am always pleased with the transformation of quilt top to quilted top. The quilting lines give it such a nice texture. The puckering that resulted from the washing and drying helped mask some of the bunching that occurred while quilting. 

Just for Jenne

This is a quilt I made last winter.

Well Jenne, here goes. Aaron wants to know if this blog is going to be about sewing or the "cute" things he thinks he does. After this post's photo upload, I am pretty sure this blog is going to be about poor photography and cursing Blogger and Picasa.

To start: I uploaded this picture four times and it only appeared on the page once. Where did it go those other times? Curses on Blogger and Picasa because I am pretty sure each upload counted as space used from my allotment.