I remembered at the last minute to take a picture of this quilt before it went out the door. Unfortunately, its an evening picture and the lighting isn't the greatest.
I had to put one together in a hurry because my friend, Eva's, baby was born one month early. She no sooner had moved back to Medicine Hat and got settled in and she landed in the hospital. Sweet baby Jaxon was so tiny - under 6 lbs. - but didn't need to be incubated.
I decided the easiest way for me to put a quilt together quickly was to make it a strip quilt. My first flannelette quilt and my first boy quilt.
Another first for me - since I own a Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0, I decided I'd get brave and teach myself to free-motion machine quilt this one. It actually turned out pretty well for my first attempt. Since I found dinosaur fabric in three different colours (as well as dogs and elephants), I decided to do lines approx. 7" long, a loop, a line, a loop, etc. width-wise across the wide strips. It sort of looks like dinosaur eggs being dropped every 7".
I discovered a wonderful challenge blog recently that inspires you to improve your journalling skills. http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com Exactly what I need as I have difficulty coming up with journalling. I was so excited when I started checking out this blog ("ning" in Australia) that I signed up right away and invited my sister, Carrie, to join as well. Carrie won a prize on her very first layout - how exciting is that!!
We have both done a couple of challenges. The Scheme: there are five colours per
challenge that you must use, at least three choices from the list of Evidence and at least one choice from the list of Testimony. The second case file per month also includes a sketch.
and Carrie's bright and fun interpretation of Case File 168:
This is what I came up with for Case File No. 169:
and I absolutely love Carrie's layout. I wish I had Carrie's talent. Her pages always look so perfect:
my Case File No. 170:
