Quilt for Mama Sue

Choosing the colors for this quilt was fun... I LOVE Blue... esp teal... I know it's such an early 80's bridesmade color... but I can't help it... its just beautiful... and what color goes better with Teal than Brown!! (Just so happins that these colors go well with my mom's living room and new kitchen. Hum...)

laying out my 'bricks'

stacked in 'ready to sew' position!

This is a great way to stay organized... clips found at office supplies stores and lable with numbers-- helps you keep your rows in the right order even if you have to put your quilt pieces away for days or weeks at a time!

finished strips. :) I LOVED seeing this quilt come together!

Beautiful finished product!

Panda trademark.
Done! So proud... and then... I washed it.

Oh... I guess some lessons you have to learn the hard way.

I'm just grateful I washed this BEFORE sending it to my mom... I would have felt bad if I sent it and it fell apart on her. What happened was I used 11 fabrics 100% cotton! then I found this one fabric (homedecor fabric) that looked AMAZING with all the rest of the colors, had a bit of a shimmer to it... so i thought... cool. i'm gonna use this... BUT when i washed it... it frayed...

(if you look above Caitlin's head in this picture you can kinda see they fraying... this is the best picture I have of it.)

Yes. I cried. Wouldn't you? All that work and then... Blahhhh.com

SO...I gave myself a pep-talk and grabbed my seam ripper and started to take out the binding... i got maybe 2 inches and set it in the 'time out' corner. I was NOT about to undo all that work... the thought of ripping out ALL 18 'Bricks'... and then sewing more in... blah.

So I headed off to the fabric store to get new fabric... I thought that would be better than trying to rescue the old one... and this is what i came up with...

ahh. it just wasn't the same...I temporally went insane... and made this AMAZING cake. (shared half with my neighbors of course...) but it really helped me. Mmm.

After eating a slice of cake... i decided to just suck it up... and finish the project I started. "all this is for your experience"... I kept hearing this in my head. And i've always had the moto...If your gonna do a job... you might as well do it right!! I'm SO happy i listened to that voice... because it was a long hard road... but it sure payed off... here is the REAL finished product... a true labor of love...

the old quilt had a dark blue back... i decided to spice it up with this festive quilters fleace...nice and cozy!!

I saved the panda...

Wahh-Laah!

Merry Christmas Mama!

Pattern for this quilt can be found by clicking HERE, Amy Butler Design. Click on bottom right side bar... FREE PATTERS--> SEWING PATTERS. Free downloads should pop up... scroll down to the bottom to AMY'S LOTUS BRICK PATH QUILT. Enjoy!