Finished at last… only a week late

Just thought I’d share a picture of my latest project… a rag quilt for the newest addition to our family.  Little Presley, our great-niece,  was due on Feb. 29th.  If she had gotten here on her expected birthdate I would have only been a few days late which would have probably been a record for me, but she decided to come early.  I’ve had the material for her quilt for quite some time now but other things kept  getting in the way of finishing it.  But once she arrived, I knew I couldn’t delay any longer.  This weekend I finally got the machine out and got busy. 

Presley’s room is decorated in pink and green, so the material I chose was a flannel in a pink stripe and a pink polka dot.  To mix in with that, I found a solid green and a solid yellow to add a little brightness.  And then I saw a bolt of flannel that I simply couldn’t resist.  It had the cutest little baby feet tracking across it.   I was pretty happy with the way it turned out and really enjoyed making it… with the possible exception of the blisters from snipping all of those seams every 1/4 inch and the fear of how it would come out of the washer!  But in the end, it all came out fine.