Teachers are underpaid & under-appreciated. Teachers’ spouses, even more so… We learned at last spring’s concert that the boys’ band director & his wife were due to have a baby girl join their coupledom this month. I decided I wanted to make a quilt for her.
I had seen some darling pennant “modern” quilts on a few of my favorite blogs. I drew up a design of my own:
I thought I would be able to find a fat quarter bundle with the pink colors I envisioned… NOT! I ended up having to locate 8 fabrics and had them cut 1/4 yard of each.
I embroidered the letters of her name on the little flags, then backed them with a lightweight fabric. (…was still trying to decided if I wanted lace around each one, as I had indicated in my plan…)
I pressed the “loop” into my narrow seam-binding & tried my layout. Oooooops! -- The size of the pennants made for a bit of a bigger quilt than I’d expected…
The tops needed to be basted
and then pinned to the bias strip.
Had to check the layout again & make sure the birdies I decided to add looked O.K.
I made the “quilt sandwich” and stitched on the seam binding and around each pennant. Next came the appliqué-ing of the darling blue birds. (These were from Embroidery Garden machine embroidery designs.)
Now, I’ve never said these words before, so please excuse me if I linger over them -- Then I took it over to my quilter. 
Actually, I begged my friend Cindy to quilt some clouds for me. I didn’t even offer her a quilting design to follow! She had some beautiful projects of her own that she was working on completing, but she squeezed my little job in anyhow.
Doesn’t the back look cute, too?
After I straightened the quilt, I determined that the corners would be kinda cute rounded (to balance the angular pennants & complement the loop in the “rope” somewhat…)
I was soooooooo excited to be able to utilize my Clover Wonder Clips that I’d purchased from HL with a coupon!
When I was complaining on social media about how much I hate finishing a quilt; Friend Cindy said to bring it over ‘cause she loves binding! 
(I restrained myself from taking her up on it…)
Never fails! (graphic violence alert! ) If I’m hand-stitching a light-colored fabric, I will accidently get a tiny poke on a finger and will have one drop of blood…
(I couldn’t even tell where on my hand the needle got me!) Fortunately it did not leave a spot after sponging with antibacterial hand soap…
So… I guess I’ll just end this post with a couple of my favorite shots of the finished quilt…
