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October 14th, 2008 | by Jessie | A few weeks ago, I posted a preview of these quilts here.
And here I posted pictures of the little boys who will be receiving the quilts.
Here are the finished quilts!
Leslie said that she wanted bright colors and wanted the quilts to be similar but not exactly the same.
Once again, [...]
October 13th, 2008 | by Jessie |
Look at this beautiful, glowing pregnant woman! Doesn’t she look great? Would you believe she’ll be 30 weeks along with twins next week? She looks so small!
And check out this score:
And this is what she got from me:
Her baby girl names, you ask?
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October 10th, 2008 | by Jessie | I had the pleasure of meeting baby Owen for the first time last night. He’s so adorable! Owen and his family are doing very well.
Here’s the proud mommy and her precious babe:
Look at that hair!
I’ve started asking expectant moms for input as I design a baby quilt [...]
September 30th, 2008 | by Jessie | My mom took the boys for a couple of nights this past weekend. Josh and I got a lot done around the house, had friends over, finished my quilt, had a Dairy Queen date… good times!
Here is the finished quilt:
The design is not mine. The design and pattern is from Susan [...]
August 28th, 2008 | by Jessie | One tricky thing about choosing fabrics and using them in a quilt is working with value. Not color, mind you, but the saturation of color making value light, medium, dark, and every range in between.
The quilt in the following pictures is the one I made for my nephew Jackson, he was born in February [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | by Jessie | Here it is.
This is the quilt I designed and made for a customer’s parents’ 50th anniversary. I posted the draft of this quilt about a month ago, here. I put a ton of hours in last week and got it done at 2:30 am the morning of the anniversary party, which was last [...]
July 14th, 2008 | by Jessie | I worked like a crazy person Friday and Saturday and I finished this quilt just in time give to our friends who got married over the weekend. Literally, I finished the binding (by machine), soaked the quilt in cold water to remove the marking lines, ran it through the washer’s spin cycle to remove the [...]
July 8th, 2008 | by Jessie | Here’s the story about the quilt that I finished but can’t take credit for:
It was May and I was finishing the Boy with a Coin quilt for a customer. Let me take you back even more… whenever I design a quilt, the first thing I do after I have the design is calculate how [...]
June 26th, 2008 | by Jessie | Here’s my favorite new piece of furniture:
Isn’t it grand? I love it! It was made and given to me by my Grandpa Bob. He was a high school shop teacher and has always enjoyed wood-working as a leisure activity.
There is more to the story: this last Christmas, my dad’s side of the [...]
June 2nd, 2008 | by Jessie | comments closed That’s the name of my most recent quilt. It was commissioned by a customer for whom I made a baby girl quilt earlier this year. My customer chose the same pattern but wanted a similar color scheme to another quilt in the gallery of my web site (Single Block – Boy). The original quilt was [...]
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