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. 

Once upon a time...

This is a "Once Upon A Time" quilt from The Modern Quilt Workshop by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr and it is for Aaron's aunt. She's going to be spending some time in the hospital so this quilt is for her to take with her. Hopefully it will brighten the room and offer her some comfort while she is away from home. The original plan was to use family pictures. However, there were some problems with the iron-on transfer paper -- the photos didn't always transfer and the fumes made me sick. It was decided that it would be easier to use "fun" fabric instead of photos.

Here it is all ready to be basted. The first quilt I made I sewed into the carpet. It was pretty discouraging to have to cut it off the carpet and re-baste it... And this was at my old apartment where the carpet had a very short pile. Foreseeing that I was doomed to baste this quilt into the shag carpeting, I made a large cardboard "sheet" to put between the quilt and shag carpet. Worked like a charm!

I've finished the quilting and the binding so I'll post a finished picture in the next few days.   

Yes Jenne, you DO have to read it!

An Amy Karol quilt I made from the pattern in
Simple Contemporary Quilts.

A close-up of the super cute little red riding hood fabric. The green chalk lines are still visible, but I'm too afraid to put the quilt in the washing machine so I'll just wait until they wear off.

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.