Saturday, April 7, 2012

Zach's doggy quilt

My nephew Zachary was really into dogs by the time he was about 2 and I was finally getting around to making his "baby" quilt.  I found this potentially charming dog fabric, but it was overwhelming and cheesy as is.  The dog faces in it were adorable however, so I had to figure out a way to use them. The trick was that they weren't square or even consistently-sized.  So I cut out the pups' faces and embedded them at jaunty angles in larger squares.  Then I pulled together the black in the dog fabric with the border and the fabric around the the letters to really set off his name.
 On a subsequent trip to the fabric store I ran across this cute "woof" and bone fabric for the backing and so I set aside what I had originally planned because I just couldn't pass it up.  This was the first quilt that I tried free-motion quilting on.  You can see it if you look closely at the back.  I've definitely improved since then (having the right foot for my machine has helped), and I love this technique now.
I love how cheerful this quilt turned out.  Just right for a dog-loving toddler boy - who is now 5.

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