Tag: Big Bunny Hug Quilt

Turkey Tracks:  September 30, 2013

“Big Bunny Hug” Quilt

 

Here’s a quilt I mailed a few weeks ago to my niece and namesake Louisa Nancy Howser Gardner–called Nan–celebrating the birth of her second beautiful son almost a month ago now.

I bought the fabric three or so years ago in Williamsburg while with my Virginia quilting friends for a week.  The panel was meant to be a fabric book, but I thought I would like to make a quilt with the story inside it.  I did a similar quilt for Nancy’s sister Lauren for the birth of her first son almost two years ago now.

The red brick fabric and the green swirly fabric came out of my stash.  I had intended a border fabric to run along the sides, but decided I liked it on the back instead.

Here are some individual blocks:

 

 

Here’s the back, made up of the border fabric;

And a close-up of the border print:

And here’s how the front, binding, and backing work together:

I quilted with a limey green thread that just goes right into the quilt–with the pantograph “Deb’s Swirls,” medium size.  The quilting is lovely if I do say so myself.  (I’m getting so much better.)

It’s a cute quilt with very cute fabric.  BUT, but, getting the blocks all to match mathematically was a small nightmare as the “book” pages were not all the same size.  I’m glad it all came out nicely.

 

 

xxx