Yesterday was an amazing day for our niece. It was her wedding day! After several reschedules and a much smaller reception she is now a married woman! Congratulations Jessie and Josh!
Of COURSE I made them a wedding quilt. It has been killing me that I could not share the quilt with you all. I still don't have a full photo of the front as this beauty was a beast. It was king size so no place at my home to put it that wouldn't end with it covered in cat hair.
I can show you a bit of it though.
I used the Framed Folk pattern to make these gray and white blocks for the front. There is just one row of the blocks with the gray borders on either side. The entire rest of the quilt is just white. LOTS of negative space!!
The quilting pattern was one by Anita Shackelford called Modern Mix (I think).
I wanted a few special elements so my quilter put in 2 Celtic knots.
You can see the binding peeking out. That took me around 8 hours of hand sewing to sew it down.
On the back, instead of an actual label, I paper pieced the first letter of their first names, their wedding date and the initials of "I Love You More", which is something their entire family says all the time.
This morning her mom sent me a photo of the happy couple with their new quilt.
Congratulations Jessie and Josh. We wish you a long happy marriage!
~XOP~
Beautiful quilt and a happy looking couple. Did I see a Finn photo bombing a couple of the pictures
ReplyDeleteThe quilt is absolutely beautiful. What a wonderful gift to receive! :)
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