Animals on the Savannah

It was a delightful day

when I could finally

introduce my 5 month old grandson,

Weston,

to his quilt.

You can see he's thrilled.

Well, as much as a 5 month old can be.

It was a kit that I had bought

from Fat Quarter Shop.

After some initial issues, 

it went together quickly.

 Check here for the back story if you'd like.

Then it was off to my quilter,

Debi, who did some marvelous custom quilting.

The background around each of the animals is 

a solid.  Look at the quilting she did.

It makes each of the figures pop.

I'm usually not into heavy machine quilting,

but for some reason this just seemed to fit.

I love the pattern variations down the center.

It adds lots of texture to compliment the prints

and the animals.

 Debi did a wonderful job.

The backing was made up 

of all the leftover pieces

 and will be as much fun to look at 

as the front.

I'm thinking this quilt will stay

at Nana's house for awhile.

 It will be a fun place to play

especially with Running Man.

Until Next Time-

Kyle

Quick, Easy, and Sweet

Last week was one of those 

weeks that was super busy

all for good and happy reasons.

Meet Weston Kimani Wolfe

Born May 10

7 lbs. 15 oz.

My 4th grand baby.

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Stitching and sewing

definitely took a back seat, but

I had recently finished two projects.

First, were the "Sister Quilts" that I made

for my trip to the Netherlands.

The design was from this new book,

Simple Friendship

by Kim Diehl and Jo Morton.

Looking through my stash,  I quickly

chose this border and then easily planned the color

scheme around it.

Vintage browns and pinks always work.

Some simple machine quilting 

and these two quilts were finished 

and ready to share.

Simple Friendship is an excellent book written 

with the idea of exchanging blocks with friends or

easily sewing them yourself.

Both Jo and Kim share their interpretations of the same

blocks and patterns.  It's always interesting 

to see how different that can be.

My second finish was

working on this simple

embroidery while recently flying for a total of 22 hours.

Needless to say,

it didn't take me that long to stitch!

I had purchased the vintage linen towel at 

an antique show a while ago and my friend Becky found

the darling chicks on Pinterest.

I did some crayon tinting

and the embroidery was done with Cosmos

embroidery floss.

Quick, Easy and Sweet all rolled into one.

I'm not sure how Quick and Easy

the week was for my daughter,

but for me 

it was pretty Sweet!

Until Next Time-

Kyle