This is, as I said in the title, my second quilt. My first measures about 5" x 12" and was made to go along with a doll bed as a Christmas gift for our niece in 2007. So I've moved from doll quilt to lap quilt; hopefully my next one (on the sewing schedule for September of this year) will be big enough for a full/queen bed.
I had a lot of fun picking the fabrics for this project; the blue and chocolate was the starting point, since Maria loves that combination. The top was machine-pieced, but the quilting was done by hand; I used embroidery floss and did long running stitches along the length of every other strip. The hardest part was putting on the bias tape, since the quilt was so thick; I used contrast stitching, which sounded like a good idea at the time, but it makes my mistakes a bit more evident. But that's okay. It will be nice and warm to help keep Maria cozy through New England winters.
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Hahaha, you say "lap quilt" but you over-estimate my shortness (or underestimate my tallness) I was completely bundled under it watching the Super Bowl.
-Maria
Beautiful! Great job finishing your second quilt. I've made one quilt in my life, a sampler for a class, and my second quilt has been years in the making, years. But it will eventually be finished, I swear.
Era, I know it helped that I had a deadline. I'm hoping I can get the next one done before it gets really cold here (which, if I start it in September, doesn't actually give me that much time!).
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