CUT, PIECED, SEWN, AND MAILED!

This was truly a labor of love making this. I now have one more quilt to make for my son's dorm room. I just want my kids to feel like mom and dad are with them, holding them when they curl up in their blankets.

The color of the blades look brownish here, but they are actually red with gold in them




 


 Each end of the quilt has a red strip of material and I placed four stars in each panel. The white pattern here is the star I used to trace around. (I pulled the star off the Internet.)



I also added anchors to the boarders. This is actually the same  anchor pattern my daughter used for her Navy fondant cake. I just pulled it off the computer  then traced around it also with tailors chalk.



If you look closely at the curved piece of binding I used a decorative stitch
 to sew it down to the quilt.



A QUILT FOR MY KATIE



This is a Dresden Pattern that I chose for my quilt. Here is the center of the quilt.



Here I have cut out the blade for the small blades. There is actually around 150 small blades to this quilt not including the medium and large blades! Here I have also inverted the blades to make the points.




After I cut out the blades, each little blade was sewn with a 1/4 seem along the top to create the point of each flower.





19 different small blades are then sewn together to make flower. THEN I place it on a 5" square and top stitch around each of the 19 blades.

I wanted to make this for my daughter, so she could always feel like her parents are there with our arms around her. It is only a twin size quilt, but let me tell ya "I HAVE TAKEN ON A HUGE PROJECT!"  Those small blades sewn up are only  1/2 inch wide and about 3 inches long. Over 150 of those at that size! What was I thinking?!