Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A+ Quilt {finished Penny Patch quiltalong}

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The title of the quilt really has nothing to do with the design.  It is a Christmas present for my daughter’s teacher (for her almost 2 year old daughter).  So my husband started calling it the A+ quilt when we were working on it, and the name stuck.

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I wanted to use the new Wallflowers fabric by Allison Harris (Cluck Cluck Sew) and a bunch of stash fabrics for the red, blue, and yellow color palette.  I love how the low volume grays, blues, creams, and whites make the bolder colors sparkle.

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There were quite a few small squares left over from making the penny patches, so I used them on the back along with a scrappy star I made from leftovers too.  I’ll have Bea sign the label of the quilt when she gets home from school today.  She assisted with all the cutting, piecing, pressing, and pinning.  Unfortunately my machine was skipping stitches like crazy and had to be repaired twice before it was fixed (and I’m sad to say it still skips stitches every once in a while—but that’s another post), so we ran out of time to do the quilting and binding together, but there’s always a next time!

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I quilted a fmq flower in the center of each block and then used a decorative squiggle stitch over the seam lines to make a grid. 

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The finished size is 41.5” x 53”.  I have quite a few favorites in the Flickr pool.  You can check them out here.

14 comments:

  1. This is sew pretty! I love your version of the Penny Patch. It will make one little girl and her mommy very happy. I still have my top in the "need to quilt" stack. Kuddos on getting yours finished and ready for gifting ... :)

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  2. that is a beautiful quilt! nice job

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  3. Jamie,the A+/Penny Patch quilt turned out so beautifully! How awesome that you and Bea were able to spend so much time together on this quilt :) There are sure to be many more for you to work on the quilting and binding together. Sorry to hear that you are still having issues with your sewing machine even after it was repaired twice :(

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  4. adorable, Jamie. This is such a perfect quilt, love your backing and quilting, too. Definitely an A+ quilt.

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  5. What a team you two are!! I bet Bea is super excited to give this to her teacher?!

    The FMQ flowers are looking lovely. I want to do some of those on a quilt soon.

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  6. Beautiful! Fabulous fabric selection!

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  7. I'd say it is an A+ quilt. It looks just great.

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  8. It looks fantastic, I love the fmq flowers! Have a Merry Christmas!

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  9. How darling! Beautiful colors.

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  10. What a nice gift! Love that you and Bea sew so much together. I just taught my just-turned-five year old how to use the machine and she is really good at it! I think we have to start thinking about one of those Hello Kitty Janomes so I can get her off my machine...

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  11. This is fantastic! And it's so fun to know that your daughter helped. I can't wait to sew with my kids!

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  12. it turned out just great! I adore the pieced backing. so fun!

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  13. What a fun little quilt, I bet she will adore it!

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