We had planned to go to Seguin to see Bobby’s parents and Memaw this weekend. (Happy Birthday from the rest of us Memaw! We love you!) But we noticed Amalie had a fever about 30 minutes before we were supposed to leave. We decided Bobby and Cora would take the trip and Mommy and Amalie would stay home.
I took advantage of all the down time and worked on Amalie’s quilt. I was able to complete all the cutting:
I finished sewing all the lambs together on Saturday night. At the end I was ready to be finished with this step. It was late! But I had these 12 happy lamb faces to reward me when I was finished:
Then, today I was able to almost finish the quilt top:
I still have the checkerboard border to sew and attach to the lambs. Hopefully I can finish up Amalie’s quilt in the next couple of months. (Yeah, it’s not so much of a weekend project.) So far, I’m very happy with how her quilt is turning out. I love the hot pink and the brown combination. The pink fabric has white watercolor butterflies draped about. The white fabric has wee soft pink polka-dots on it. The brown fabric has swirly black dotted concentric circles.
This pattern is so easy aside from reading the directions. Also my mom and I made this quilt when I was 10ish. Cora inherited/sweetly demanded this quilt and it is one of her favorites blankies. She calls it lamb quilt and you can see it on her bed. Is it cheesy that I wanted Amalie to have a lamb quilt too?
This is a girly comment, but it worked out well that Cora inherited my lamb quilt because it works with her dark tan complexion. The hot pink lamb quilt compliments Amalie’s fair complexion.
This is so cute, I pray ours comes out this good. Hope the baby is feeling better.
I think it is precious to Amalie will also have a lamb quilt of her own. What a special mommy you are! Hope all is well with our girl. We had a good time this weekend but really missed you and Amie. Love you!
It looks adorable.
What a nice Blog, you set it up to look like many of my quilter's blogs that I view. The blocks look great, Nice work
I thought I would leave the story of how Cora fell in love with the Lamb quilt.
It was when you were in still living in St. Louis and I was baby sitting. Cora was having a hard time settling down to go to sleep, so I did want any grandma did, I rocked her. The lamb quilt lived on the rocker at that time. Each time I got Cora to sleep I would try to put her in the crib and she would awake. It was after 3-4 attempts that I got smart and saw what she was looking at, it was the lamb quilt. I asked if she wanted it, she shook her head yes. So I put her in the crib and she snuggled into the lamb quilt and to my surprise fell fast asleep with the lamb quilt wrapped around her. And that is how Cora fell in love with the lamb quilt.
It is so sweet! I wish I was crafty.