Meagan calls this her "horsie blanket". It was a lot of fun to make, and didn't take as long as I thought it would. All the horses are machine appliqued, and I even did the quiliting myself. For a first try, it went pretty well, even if there were several puckers on the back. If you look hard at some of the close-ups, you can see some of the quilting--there are clouds in the sky and flowers to either side of the pony. There's more in the grass, but you can't really see it. I even wrote "for Meagan" in the grass of one of them. I wonder if she'll ever notice? The only hand sewing I did was the eyes of the ponies. Hand sewing is not my forte. Each eye is a different shape and size, and one even looks Chinese. Oh well. I guess it gives them character. I think my favorite is the white pony with the green mane.
This is a quilt I put together for a machine quilting class, that got cancelled because of the snow. Since it was more or less for practice, I didn't want to go out and buy a bunch of fabric, so I mostly used what I already had on hand, leftover from other projects. There are pieces from Pamela's wedding quilt, Bethany and Cedric's planet blankets from last year, coloring bags I made for my niecs, and other stuff. It was fun to put together. Each set of circles is made from complementary colors. It's just the quilt top right now, and it might be a while until I finish it, because I tore apart my sewing area today. We took a bunch of stuff to storage, in an effort to make our house look less cluttered for when we put it up for sale in about a week and a half. So I have no more sewing desk and my machine will shortly be boxed up. *Sniff*
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