Here is a picture of the quilt Aunt Shel and I made for Mamaw’s 50th birthday.

I must admit that eventhough I was playing around with quilting, I never would have thought to do it if it was not for Aunt Shel.  She is good at these, I think she said this was her 3rd one.  Here’s how we did it:

Selected appropriate number of pictures, made them black and white, cropped them close and printed to special fabric paper (bought at Jo-Ann Fabrics)

Cut picture fabric and blocks to size

Had each family member sign their name on a piece of paper, which we traced onto the green blocks and embroidered by hand.  BAGD did most of the “50s”.

Sewed blocks and rails per quilt book instructions

Ta-Da.

We were pretty proud of ourselves because we finished on schedule.  Our schedule had a built in emergency buffer, but we didn’t even have to use it.  We finished with no problems.  The finished quilt is crib sized, which was perfect.  It was not too large of a project and very manageable for quilting.  I sewed the quilt top and I am still not perfect with my corners.  So, just like the Hawkeye Quilt, we could not stitch in the ditch.  So, instead, we traced a heart on each of the “50″ squares and quilted that.  It worked well, sort of like the quilted “I” in my Hawkeye Quilt.