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A Wedding Quilt

My Other Girl is getting married!  This is the second member of Team Offspring to get married, but the first since I began quilting.  A wedding quilt is a big deal and a labor of love.  5 months ago, I asked the kids if anyone was making them one and if not, that I would be honored to do so and so it began… with a lot of help from my friends… friends don’t let friends sew alone, luckily for me.

ashleyquiltpicm8Step one of course was the fabric, the colors…she loves sunflowers, they wanted browns, yellow and tan….  My Loving Spouse was drug off to the fabric store to help in the first selection, but it seems I picked up more fabric and colors for this quilt every time I entered a fabric store…it was a Wedding Quilt after all!  I literally spent days and nights on Pinterest scouring the site for a pattern and kept coming back to the one that just seemed right for this quilt, except all I had was a picture…no pattern or instructions and it was a bit complicated, so I needed help, lots of it.  Luckily for me, the first of the quilting friends steps in to make sure I get it right…and I was off.ashquiltpicm

Sewing 32 squares and then…cutting them up and sewing them some more…ashleyquiltpicm2Laying them out for on ‘point’…ashleyquiltpicm5…not liking this final effect…laying them out again…and again…  My plan for adding the triangle pieces would have cut off the corners of each bordering square (Bad British Word) and little did I know, that when you quilt ‘on point’ the triangle pieces can stretch which will distort the entire quilt (Double Bad British Word).  I am grateful for Quilting Friend 2 who gave me a complicated mathematical formula for cutting the triangle pieces to keep them from stretching…and I finally have the quilt top completed.ashleyquiltpicm7Fabric for the backing was bought in brown, as I drug My Loving Spouse back to the fabric store (the nearest one is 23 miles away).  Except we didn’t buy enough…so we did it again…and the second brown (on a second trip)…was not enough as well…  Thankfully, so entered Quilting Friend 2 (again) with a suitable and warm fabric for the backing…it was time to quilt it.  Onto the long arm quilter and I was working away.ashleyquiltpicm9Quilting in circles, which I am still learning to do…ashleyquiltpicm13Using one of the extra brown fabrics for the binding and I was done.  ashleyquilt15It took me 5 months, but I wanted to make sure it was done right.  I got it in the mail and off to ‘his’ mother all in time for a shower, that I didn’t even know they were having!ashleyquiltpicm12Packed and sewn with love and prayers for a life time of blessings for them both…

{ 18 comments… add one }
  • judyvickdahlson October 11, 2015, 10:04 am

    A work of art! It’s just gorgeous!

    • Ellen October 11, 2015, 2:43 pm

      Thank you sweet friend!
      It was very difficult, but that is part of the gift!

  • Shelba and Donald Jensen July 8, 2014, 11:25 am

    It’s beautiful, Ellen!

    • Ellen July 8, 2014, 3:15 pm

      Oh, thank you Shelba!
      I am going to start one for us that is a ‘remake’ of my Grandma’s first quilt that is our barn quilt.

  • Glenda July 8, 2014, 7:58 am

    Amazing!!! what a wonderful gift

    • Ellen July 8, 2014, 8:25 am

      Thanks, Glenda,
      Just hoping they like it.

  • Diane Brown July 7, 2014, 3:55 pm

    I know sewing wasn’t your strong creative suit but it seems to me that has changed! I love the pattern you chose. Beautiful quilt!!! What a lovely gift.

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 9:37 pm

      Thanks Diane. Quilting isn’t like sewing…it is more like card making with fabric.

  • Mady July 7, 2014, 3:27 pm

    So beautiful Ellen! So much love and talent went into that amazing quilt…. They will be wrapped up in your love for years to come. Wishing them, and you, all the best. Congratulations! xoxo

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 3:49 pm

      Thank you, Mady. That is my hope!! Hugs, Ellen

  • Miriam July 7, 2014, 1:37 pm

    What a beautiful gift of love! The pattern is gorgeous. So happy and sunny.

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 3:48 pm

      The colors were a stretch for me, but it wasn’t about ‘me’. Thanks, Mims.

  • John & BJ July 7, 2014, 9:04 am

    That’s beautiful. What a cool heirloom!

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 9:09 am

      Thank you!!

  • Heather Flatley July 7, 2014, 8:45 am

    WOW Ellen beautiful!!! And congrats on another wedding!!!

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 9:09 am

      Thank you Heather!

  • Bev Widney July 7, 2014, 8:41 am

    Ellen, this is so extraordinary . . . just beautiful. Love, Love, Love it. What a wonderful gift of LOVE! Your blog always makes me smilezz. Hugs, -bev

    • Ellen July 7, 2014, 9:10 am

      You are so creative, that I take this as a double compliment. Thank you, Bev!

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