Emily's Quilt

Hi, this is my very first blog - so I hope I don't bore you to death! I decided that this year I would make a quilt for each of my children and grandchildren's birthday's. Of course I had someone tell me that I don't really HAVE to, but, I do. I said I was and now I'm going to do it. When I set my mind to do something - there is just no stopping me. So here are pics of quilt #7 for Emily who is 10 years old now. I will post later with pics of previous quilts, etc. Anyway, i think I'm doing pretty well considering that 1) I have only made 10 or so quilts in my life and 2) We're talking NINE quilts here!!! What was I thinking??? This quilt was fun to make with appliqued flowers, stitched on rick rack and quilting done on my embroidery machine!!! I'm in the experimental stages of using my embroidery machine for quilting, but seeing as I really don't know how to quilt except for "stitch in the ditch", this is the fastest way I know of to add some unique quilting. After doing this quilt, I have come to the conclusion that I WILL need to learn how to quilt or else pay someone to do it as this is not the easiest way to do the quilting. I do think it turned out well though.