Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A wedding quilt

OH MAN, have I been BUSTING to tell you all about this one.

Our friends E & D were married in February and I had decided to make them a quilt to mark the occasion. Oh sure, it's a few months late but hey, I actually delivered!



Choosing colours was a synch when E mentioned that red and blue together were her favourite colours - red as in a ruby red and blue as in a clear cornflowery blue.


There was a mild hiccup in proceedings as mis-judged my seam allowance on the small four-patch block, giving them 3/8inch instead of 1/4inch. So, the middle square of the bigger blocks had to be reduced and then the strips around them adjusted too. Oy. Anyway, I got there in the end and added an extra border to make-up for the slightly smaller size.







7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is an amazing and beautiful gift. Your friends are lucky!

txcarol

fifi said...

yes, what amazingly fortunate friends. Guess what I am wearing today...I look like that quilt! Exactly!

Teen said...

when exactly did you fit in time to do this???

Frogdancer said...

You've done an excellent job. Well done!

Debra said...

I want to make a beautiful quilt too. I collect patterns out of magazines for when i have the time to get onto it. I'm not sure when you made this happen Kim.

KPB said...

Nights dude, I do it at night. And I don't have a clean house. At all.

First House on the Right said...

Lovely gift! When my husband & I got married a friend of mine knitted us the most enormous blank in black and shades of grey. It's one of my favourite things in our room.

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