When I purchased this kit I intended it to be for me but about the same time I asked my mother if she would like a quilt for her birthday. She was very happy about that and when I asked her what color she told me mauve. Then I was showing her this quilt kit and telling her how excited I was about this quilt. She then let me know that this was a beautiful quilt and I quickly understood that she would like this quilt. Now mind you, this quilt is not mauve but apparently this did not matter.
So I proceeded to make this quilt. It took months to complete and I found a good longarm quilter to quilt it for me. I love quilts with cotton batting not polyester. My mother does not like cotton batting because that is the only way her mother quilted. So I had to get this quilt done with polyester batting, much to my chagrin. She loves this quilt! I made her pillow shams to match along with a few throw pillows. She shows it to everyone when they come to her apartment. I was going to take a new picture of this quilt on her bed last week and I even took my camera with me but I forgot to take the picture. So this one will have to due.
I have also purchased another quilt kit called "Colorwash Irish Chain" by HeatherWorksQuilts. This kit was also purchased at the same quilt show a couple of years ago. I guess I should stop going to this quilt show.
This is a beautiful quilt and I choose a blue color. To this day I don't know why I picked that color because I am not particularly fond of blue. I finished this quilt last January and I call it my January quilt. I really don't like this quilt. It is beautiful but it is not scrappy. I really don't like matchy matchy. I love scrappy. I really believe this will be the last quilt kit I will buy.
I custom quilted in the center of the block with the flower and also some very small pebbling. I am pretty happy with the quilting and it does look very striking on the bed.
I love Scrappy!
I likey the blue on white one!
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