TheFirstChild's Wedding Quilt
Pattern:
- SweetiePie and I drew up this quilt on our own. The monogram was done using microsoft word and a projector to project the image onto a wall for enlarging. The monogram is turned-under hand-sewn applique.
- Finished March 2010.
Materials:
- Lots of mixed tan fabrics
- Quilt Batting
- Quilt Backing
Additional Info:
- SweetiePie loves monograms, so we decided to make a quilt that has their new married monogram in the middle of it.
- The center of this quilt was made with 5″ squares of various tan prints. There are 16 rows of 12 blocks. The narrow taupe border is 1 1/2″ wide. This creates a top that should cover the top of a queen sized bed. The monogram letters were put on the top before the borders were added.
- The strips in the outside border are each 2 1/2″ wide and were originally cut to be 18″ long to cover the drop on TheFirstChild’s top mattress. Then, the scallops were cut to span the width of 6 strips. The top and bottom borders each neededabout 38 strips and the side borders each needed about 46 strips. The corners are mitered.
- The finished quilt size is roughly 97″ x 117″.
- All the machine quilting is done by me — fairly simple with a bit of stipple quilting around the monogram and the rest is all straight line quilting.
Gift?
- For TheFirstChild and SweetiePie