It started out by my wanting to learn to do a Y seam. So, I made one patch using the window pane block. I put a piece of fabric in the center that had horses on it. When my daughter saw the square, she said that she wanted a quilt with all horses. That started a hunt for horse fabric. This took a little while because we were a little picky about the fabric that we wanted. In the mean time a dear friend of mine, Miss Francis, gave me a large bag of fabric. Actually three large bags. In the process of going through these bags we found several squares that had been cut out that had horses on them. My daughter decided that she wanted to include these squares in the quilt because of who they had come from. So the quilt was rearranged again.
Some where in the midst of all of this, several young people from our church and other friends got married, or were having babies. So my daughters quilt took a back burner until I finished all of these gifts. But that was OK. I'm thankful that she is such an easy going, patient child. Having said that though, I have to be careful that she doesn't get overlooked.
Well, all of the wedding showers and baby showers finally slowed down and I picked up the horse quilt again. I finished piecing the squares together and then finished the top. I machine quilted it and finished the binding on 2 Aug. 2010.
Now it is on to other stuff. I have another baby blanket to make and another wedding gift to crochet that I need to have finished before the end of this month. Oh my goodness, buy my hands do stay busy. I thank God that I have been blessed with so many dear friends and such an awesome family.
Blessings to all ~ S (The Quilted YaYa)
The very center of the quilt.
This is a pillow case that I made from some of the fabric that Miss Francis gave us. The horses were much to big for the quilt, but we wanted to use them somehow.
