The Quilt

Soon after I found out I was having a girl I came across some old embroidery squares and embroidery floss in a box.  I had “stolen” them from my mom a few years ago and she told me they belonged to either my Grandma or one of my Aunts.  I decided to start embroidering the squares, casually toying with the idea of making them into a quilt.  It turns out that I actually enjoyed the process of embroidering and found it to be very relaxing.  I started working on it back in October and at a rate of one square per week, I finished embroidering the squares in December. 

 

Then I came up with the design for the quilt, cut it out and pieced it together.  This was all the easy part.  Then came the tedious, horrific part where I quilted it on the sewing machine.  The squares came with a pre-printed design of where they should be quilted.  The design was made with the intention of being quilted by hand of course.  I was able to do it on the machine but it was extremely frustrating and time consuming.  Not to mention that I was a bit disappointed in the lack of perfection I had to settle for.  A lot of the stitches were uneven and crazy and so if you ever see it in person, don’t inspect too closely!  After two or three weeks of machine quilting (I drug it out because it was so frustrating) I finally finished that part of the process.

 

The binding was, thankfully, also the “easy part.”  I whipped that up in one day and finished the hand stitching it to the quilt a day or two later.  Scott documented the last few stitches of the process…

 

Only a bit more to go!

 

And here it is, the final stitch!!!

 

Done!

 

I am still amazed that I actually finished it.  I have no idea how many hours I spent on this quilt but I hope baby girl uses and treasures it.  I am prepared for it to be stained and abused (I made it big enough that she can sleep under it even when she is Stephen’s age).

Seriously, I am so proud of this thing!