Tom is getting married on July 18th so we had the brilliant idea to make him a denim and bandanna quilt. It is from Prall and Mary but Margo and I volunteered to make it. I came up with the design. It is eight inch squares on point so they are diamonds instead of cubes, sewn together in diagonal strips.
We started cutting and sewing the blocks together to make the top on May 28th. This part of the project took us only about 10-15 hours. Margo is more patient than me when it comes to sewing with little ones. Don't you love the new way TaKara likes to play with her blanket?
Then, Marcy, Margo, and I went to my mom's house in St. George on June 11th and 12th and tied it together. It took us about 3 or 4 hours to just get it on the frames because the back was too little so we went and bought more fabric then it was too big. It turned out very pretty though. I am glad the first fabric didn't work because it was blue and the red looks a lot better. And we found out at the shower that Kait's favorite color is red. I finally took the time to trim the excess batting and bind it on June 23rd.
Mary gave it to her at the shower (June 27th) rather than the wedding because she isn't very good at keeping secrets and we didn't want them to find out about it until we gave it to them. It is amazing that they didn't! Everyone at the shower was very impressed and flipping out their camera phones to take pictures of it. When Kait found out it was mostly made out of Tom's pants I thought she was going to cry. Tom told us today how nice it was and how much he likes it. I am really glad that they like it so much because you know after you put so much time and effort into something someone has no clue about you hope they love it ;)
We started cutting and sewing the blocks together to make the top on May 28th. This part of the project took us only about 10-15 hours. Margo is more patient than me when it comes to sewing with little ones. Don't you love the new way TaKara likes to play with her blanket? 
Then, Marcy, Margo, and I went to my mom's house in St. George on June 11th and 12th and tied it together. It took us about 3 or 4 hours to just get it on the frames because the back was too little so we went and bought more fabric then it was too big. It turned out very pretty though. I am glad the first fabric didn't work because it was blue and the red looks a lot better. And we found out at the shower that Kait's favorite color is red. I finally took the time to trim the excess batting and bind it on June 23rd. 
Mary gave it to her at the shower (June 27th) rather than the wedding because she isn't very good at keeping secrets and we didn't want them to find out about it until we gave it to them. It is amazing that they didn't! Everyone at the shower was very impressed and flipping out their camera phones to take pictures of it. When Kait found out it was mostly made out of Tom's pants I thought she was going to cry. Tom told us today how nice it was and how much he likes it. I am really glad that they like it so much because you know after you put so much time and effort into something someone has no clue about you hope they love it ;)
3 comments:
Well haven't you been busy! I wish I had the ability to sew like you do. You always have some amazing project in the works.
so this is Megan your cousin. I was blog hopping and found your blog so I hope you don't mind!!! We are going private so if you would like to check us out ours is dmcolemancrew.blogspot.com leave me a comment and I will give you an invite! That quilt is amazing by the way. I wish I had that ambition.
@ Marcie--
Let me know which one you want and I'll make it smaller. Most people have shifted to widescreen computers, so I've been making more widescreen backgrounds. I'd be more than happy to shrink one down for you though! Just let me know which one(s).
--Scrapgrounds
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