This first quilt for Margaret's Hope Chest was quilted with the Paper Doll Girl and Boy quilt design I came up with. It is SO cute! I wish you could see the quilting better, but wow, the design is fast and cute and I'm tickled that it worked as well as I had in my head when I drew it out. They always look better on the fabric than they do on the computer. I can't even tell you how much fun I'm having designing these digitized quilt designs. I'm learning so much just by playing around and wish I had the book that went with the program. Supposedly there is a pdf version on the internet somewhere, but I've searched everywhere and just can't find it. I even watched 6 youtube videos in German. I took a year of German in college and understand enough of what the lady was saying just by what she was clicking on and from the English she used to pick up a few tricks. There really isn't all that much out there for how expensive the program was.
This cute quilt got the giraffe quilt design. I've actually used that one quite a bit. It's much slower to quilt out, but so very cute it's worth it when it fits the quilt like this one. Plus, this is a small quilt, so it's ok. My son came home with a homework about quilts and the slaves and how they used them to escape. He wrote up about the rail fence pattern and the message it sent. I should have sent this one to school so he could show what a real rail fence quilt looked like. But, then I would have had to put the binding on it.
I've got other things to do.
My older son is in a robotics competition this weekend. He's up for a big award and will find out tomorrow if he gets it. If he does, he goes on to the National championship where if he wins that, he gets $100,000 scholarship money for college. That would be nice :) I'm hoping he at least gets to try for the scholarship. That's more quilting money for me :) He said he thought he did really well in his interview today and was only competing against 5 other boys. Those are pretty good odds.
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