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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Making it GO!

Happy Valentine's Day everybody!  I hope you get lots of hearts and flowers on this special day - it must be nice (I wouldn't know).  Today is also a special GO day for the cruisers on the Carnival ghost ship, I understand they'll be getting home today, yaaaay!

I've been wrasslin' just a wee bit too much on this little baby quilt, but now I can say the flimsy is done!  In an attempt to just get on with it, I put this black and white alpha border on...
yuck!

I got some great advice from Sharon at Vroomans Quilts about dividing the center (thanks Sharon!), so I took the borders off, made off-center slashes, and added a dark blue sash. 
After I bordered the whole piece I was thinking I should have bordered the center block, but too late - I was on my way outta there!

I added a green outer border...
this looks like a done deal to me!  I didn't want to make a meal out of this little quilt, lest the recipient have to pack it into his college gear.  Although the center would  have looked better slashed in regular slices.  I must have been in one of my creative moods... whatever.

The family has a dog but I think Nicholas will have fun looking at the playful monkeys, whilygigs,

apple pies, stars, puppy prints, chickens, dots... sew forth and sew on.


I'll be participating in a fun die cut scrap-along sponsored by Ebony at Love Bug Studios.  This is just the thing to use my new GO cutter and it starts April 1, check it out!



Have a great Thursday, be careful on the ice if you have any.  Sew forth and sew on til later!

4 comments:

  1. It just needed that little pop and I like the green final border to even it all out. I am sure it will be loved.

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  2. Now if I'd been a better blogger friend I would have sent you some chocoate covered strawberries today....maybe next year! I think the baby quilt came out very cute and will get lots of loving. The green border is perfect.

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  3. Oh I know it will be well loved. I love all the fun squares! The color and shapes made me smile. I'm sure the recipient will smile, too!

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  4. Okay, next year you will get flowers and chocolates or something, I promise. I love the baby quilt. I'm making one too and it's not very different than yours. Thanks for the info on the scrap-along, I think I'm going to do it too.

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