The Zoo Quilt

This is the first quilt I made.  My quilting friend who started me out encouraged me to create something special for the birth of my first niece, and helped me to pick out the fabrics that I would need.  I created several templates for the various animals from drawings that I could find online.  Then I used a fusible interfacing to transfer the animal drawings onto pieces of fabric.  I pieced a few of the background pieces together as needed and top stitched each piece of each animal, tree, etc. to the background fabric.  The finished product was long arm quilted by a friend.

Game of Quilts

Winter is coming, so make quilts!  This was my first attempt to participate in a quilting challenge, in an event where I would have to use my own creativity and not just follow another pattern.  I think the hardest part of creativity for me is trusting that what I can visualize will actually be acceptable by others.  I'm not sure why that matters!

In this challenge, Maddie of the BadAssQuilter's Society (my new favorite following) asked us to be inspired by the hit TV drama "Game of Thrones" and limit ourselves to the use of four fat quarters, of predetermined coloring, to an 18-inch square quilt.  Hmmm... favorite TV show, quilting, AND be a BADASS? Yes, Please!

I ordered one of each of the color packs, but unfortunately only got around to finishing one quilt.  (Moving puts a limit to creativity time!)  It was definitely a learning experience as I forced myself to learn a new technique for the border.  I think I could have been happier with the results if I had more time to perfect my corners, but I was super psyched to get something entered in time at all!

My Love to the BadAssQuilter's Society!  http://www.badassquilterssociety.com/