Birthday Quilt
Rachel's birthday quilt is finally finished and gifted, only a couple of weeks late.
She picked out the jelly roll fabric back in January, and using my favorite 1600 Quilt Race pattern, I had this part done in plenty of time to send off to the long-arm quilter. Except . . . . . . trying to find border fabrics to match these custom colors was a b**ch.
In the end, I took it to my local quilt store and begged for help. We gave up trying to match the blue/teals - Rachel's favorite color in this - and went with the closest orange we could find and a pretty brown border fabric that I really, really like.
Add some backing, batting and big blue dragonflies and voila!
A 50 x 70" quilt that I hope will see lots of use for years to come.
Happy birthday, Rachel!
She picked out the jelly roll fabric back in January, and using my favorite 1600 Quilt Race pattern, I had this part done in plenty of time to send off to the long-arm quilter. Except . . . . . . trying to find border fabrics to match these custom colors was a b**ch.
In the end, I took it to my local quilt store and begged for help. We gave up trying to match the blue/teals - Rachel's favorite color in this - and went with the closest orange we could find and a pretty brown border fabric that I really, really like.
Add some backing, batting and big blue dragonflies and voila!
A 50 x 70" quilt that I hope will see lots of use for years to come.
Happy birthday, Rachel!
2 comments:
WOW!! Love it.
That is Gorgeous!!!
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