Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Otter's 13 Year Quilt
So named because it took me about that long to make it!
It's slightly larger than her double bed. The backing isn't in any of these pictures, but it's a solid dark blue. Somewhere between navy blue and cobalt.
Some of the fabric is from specific things, like the carousel horse curtains that Grammy (my Mom) made for Otter's room when she was a baby. There are also some pieces that are from flour sacks, which has to do with my previous employment. Some of it is excess from Christmas ornaments with Otter's picture that we made for grandparents a few years. And some of it is just fabric that we liked, or Otter picked out.
The starry fabric was a cover for the small table that held Otter's pet mice. To the right is a floral print, that's one of those flour sacks. To the left is part of the carousel horse fabric.
The cow print might be left over for something we made for Froggy when her kitchen was black & white cow decor, but I'm not positive. The blue is just a color that Otter liked, the blue background with a pattern was left from the beanie baby holders that were on Otter's wall when she had a million beanie babies. I think that the floral pattern next to the butterfly pattern might have been something of Grammy's.
The yarn is one of my favorites, it's called Mexicana and is a very bright multi-color variegated yarn.
Otter reports that the quilt is very warm.
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