JD’s Silly Safari Quilt: Completed!
22 months ago
by Erin
The quilt is completed! I’m so happy with the way it turned out. I used the Silly Safari quilt pattern from Debbie Mumm’s Cuddle Quilts book. This is the third quilt I’ve made from this book, they’re all so beautiful. I spent a long, long time agonizing over the fabric choices for this quilt. I LOVED the fabrics used in the sample, but as much as I scoured the internet and local quilting stores, I couldn’t find them. I’m happy with the fabrics I settled on though, and I love the backing fabric. I’m not sure what it’s called though. It was nice to not have to piece the back for once!
I used scraps of fleece fabrics for the manes of the lion and zebra. French knots served as eyes and nostrils on the animals. And as for the quilting, I did mostly straight line quilting and a diamond pattern for the border.
Check out closeups of each of the animal blocks in the gallery.
Linking it up!
JD’s Silly Safari Quilt (WIP)
42 months ago
by Erin
I have been wanting to finish this quilt so I can link it up to some link parties, but I’m still not done with it! I figured what the hell, I’ll post this Work in Progress and link it up to Quiltstory’s link party. Here it is:
JD's Silly Safari Quilt
I still need to finish the quilting on the border and then bind it, but I’m almost there! This pattern is from Debbie Mumm’s Cuddle Quilts book. I spent months agonizing over fabric choices, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. I’ll go into more detail on the finished quilt post! I’m planning on giving this to my nephew for Christmas (he’ll be 4 months and change!).
Let me know what you think of this one 
My Quilting To-Do List
02 months ago
by Erin
I know a lot of you out there in the quilting blogosphere have many projects going at the same time but I take a different approach. I usually don’t move on to another project until I’ve finished the one I’m working on. I think with all of the other things going on in my life, I don’t have enough brain space to have multiple projects going on at once!
However, I do have a list of projects on my bulletin board so I can keep track of everything I have and WANT to do. I thought I’d share my list with you today!
- JD’s Silly Safari Quilt (in progress)
- My niece’s Christmas present (sleeping bag)
- My husband’s T-Shirt Quilt
- A scrap quilt (I seriously need to get rid of some scraps!)
- Doily Quilt
The first two items and maybe the third definitely need to be completed by Christmas. I think I’m on track to do it!
Tell me, are you like me and take quilting one project at a time? Or do you have several works in progress going at the same time?
