Hannah's Garden Quilted

I promised some photos of Hannah's Sunflower Garden quilted.  I didn't get photos of the completed quilt before gifting it.  They kicking and yelling graciously let me have it back for a few days for photos.  The husband had asked me to make his wife a sunflower quilt and a reminder of their pet who had passed on.  He was going to pay me, but as I took almost an entire year to find my rhythm with this quilt, I decided to gift it instead of taking payment.  (they are friends, so it wasn't too much of a stretch)

The sun hitting the quilt just so made it look especially bright.  Sunflowers should be happy, bright, fun, and make you feel good inside. Somewhat like a quilt.

Some of the quilting is grid style, I like to use that for stability.  I used FMQ to make sunflower petals through the panel pieces of the sunflower.  I also made small sunflowers in the center of the lighter blocks, you can see them well on the back.  

For the back I used a sunflower batik, and I was just a tad short of having enough for the entire back.  But, I used that to my advantage for something I wanted to add at the bottom.

In the quilting I wanted to add a small outline of 'Hannah' who was the pet of this quilts new owner.  Hannah was ill and went on to heaven before her time.  I traced a photo of Hannah and stitched over the outline on the back of the quilt.  You can barely see her on the front - as if she is hiding in the garden.  They had wanted a reminder of Hannah, but I didn't want the quilt to be sad, and this way, I feel as if she is there if they want to see her, but not obvious.  She was a very handsome dog!  

Here is the photo I used:

Hannah 

I received a very nice note from the quilts happy home, that alone was enough to make me all warm and fuzzy feeling inside.  But as we had talked about Hannah when I gave her the quilt and she said how sad she still was.  I encouraged her to make a home for a new dog - as that is what kept me going last summer when I had to let go of my own old girl.  In her note she told me that she was inspired to move on from her sadness and will bring home two boxer puppies later this month.  I will need to remind her later, that I did NOT in anyway encourage her to get two!  

Black and white showing value in the quilt.  

Some catch up

First - the world wide web should be called the world *^&%$ wicked #(&%$& wishy washy web.

It's not working at our house.  

Photos are on the regular camera loaded on to the computer so can't post from mobile.

I am going to have to call the cable company, which is like saying 'my tooth hurts, I want to call the dentist'.  

I cheated and brought my laptop to work where the internet works fine - because geez; it should always work for actual work but not for the good stuff, like photo and blog posting.  

I was able to get a few things checked off the duty list over the weekend.  

Here is one:

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Oops, can't show you that one, I have to wait for a reveal in March.  It's good though, so come back.

Also, a great bee block for QAWII.  This star block uses the Tri Rec Ruler which gives you a perfect fit of center and points for the star.

Love those dots!  

My niece received a pair of sweat pants for Christmas that were too long - she wanted elastic at the bottom instead of wide legs.

I. did. it.

Cut the excess, made a little tunnel for the elastic to feed through, and viola.  

Funny how working with clothing makes me giddy, I am usually a scared rabbit thinking about hemming anything, but this one was easy and came out perfect.

This is one leg finished.

I have several projects in the mix -

Happy Sewing!

Keep Calm - And Quilt on