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Second dinosawa paw quilt:

It looks a lot like the first one, but it is a wholly separate thing!  There is only a tiny square of dinosawa paw (hoof?  foot?  what do dinosawas have?) fabric left.  

The back is red chicken wire.  And chickens are descended from dinosawas.  It works!   

 

 

Please do not be confused by the greenery - this was taken sometime in October.  We only have photos to remember the greenery by.   

 

Welcome to the family, quilt!

The kid helping hold the quilt is a smartass

 

Oh yeah!  Seeing this picture reminds me that I didn't have enough dinosawa fabric to do the binding of the second quilt that was actually stars, not paws, and the colors were a wee bit off.  I used up pretty much all of the star fabric for that, too, so there might be a bit or bob that end up in a scrap quilt, but it won't be much.  I do have plain black fabric that I could have bound with, but did I find it in time?  I did not.  

 

Happy crafting! 

And more

Okay, here is another finished quilt.  I gave it to the recipient last week then realized that her baby is actually the last due of the 3 I was trying to get done - she's not due until April, with a boy.  

 

The border fabric I got one Christmas ago, I believe, a yard in a bargain bin, and it produced one of my favorite baby quilts ever.  I had a long internal debate about whether it was gray or purplish gray, but I went with gray and I think it worked.  This is my favorite shade of green, so I'm highly biased, but the kids seemed to really like it too, so that's proof?  

Dark winter, I don't want to spend 10 minutes re-downloading the photo to rotate it, etc, but here is the back.  It is green with darker green lightning bolts, very cute, bought especially for this quilt during Christmas tear.  

 

 

Okay, more to come.   

Finished!

I do wish I could post more often, but getting photos to my blog is now an insanely byzantine process.  I'll bet if I wanted to spend 4 hours learning some new process I could do it pretty quickly, though I'm certain it would involve getting a new, expensive phone as well.  So I stick with this silly backwards maze of hacks and workarounds and only post once every six months and miss half the pictures I took and want to talk about and probably forget at least one project.  But at least that leaves me more time to actually make stuff.  Anyway!  

Here is a finished baby quilt.  (I still am not sure how to get Blogger to move my pictures around easily, so I'll get it into some semblance of coherence, if not order). 

 

It is for a boy who is due in March.  It has delightful whales/orcas/narwhals in the border and seashells and seals and stars.  I thought the light was ideal for photos today, but no - this winter has really brought it starting in November.  The sun has been out for about a total of 1.5 days out of the last 40.  We haven't been above freezing in weeks.  It's rather lovely that way and really makes you appreciate summer.  

 

Here's the back!  It's blue dots that I bought for something else.  I went on a pretty crazy tear after Christmas - got TWO gift certificates and left the kids at home and got lost in a time warp at the fabric store.  Got the nice border fabric but neglected to get a back to go with it, so I used this, which was meant to go with the jacks-looking blue fabric that I have more borders of.  It worked well here, though, and I will just plan to get stuck in the same way I always do when it's time to back a quilt.  

A closeup!  Still very dark.   

 

And here is another finish, a big one, though you can't really tell from the documentation.  All the pictures of in-progress are on my phone, which might as well be the outer reaches of the solar system given that I can't text to e-mail anymore.  But please be very impressed - this quilt is a Norm & Nanette with vintage fabrics - knits, corduroys, overalls.   

The quilting was a wild success, meeting my only goal of "oh god please don't ruin it."  The hooks, not pictured here, are the fasteners from overalls.  Cute!  Economical!  Invisible!  

Instead of dragging more photos around, I'll just make more posts.  Here they come!