Lulu quilt, finished!

Do you ever see those giveaways on Instagram?

I have fun with them, usually you only have to become a follower and leave a comment.

Last summer, I won this pattern, designed by Amber Johnson.

Her company's name is Gigi's Thimble, 

her Instagram name is gigis_thimble.

Not only did I win the pattern, but I also won the machine quilting for the quilt I made with Amber's pattern!!!

It takes a jelly roll to make the Lulu pattern, that's all.

I only had a couple of jelly rolls, but I chose Sew Cherry, maybe my all time favorite fabric line.

It's Lori Holt's original fabric line.

I am still hoarding this fabric, so it was a little difficult to break into!

The quilt came together really fast, with a lot of chain stitching.

Here's my quilt, all machine quilted!

I just love it.

Stephanie Romney did the quilting, 

her instagram name is stuphfromsteph.

I highly recommend her, she did a fabulous job :)

I back the quilt with a soft minky.

I thought about giving it to my newest daughter in law for Christmas, but just couldn't part with it.

This quilt means a lot to me since it's Sew Cherry, Stephanie quilted it for me, and the back is minky.

It's my first minky quilt to keep for myself :)

I usually bind my quilts with a bright red, but didn't have any 

Sew Cherry.

I chose this gorgeous aqua with red cherries for my binding.

I could just stare at these beautiful fabrics all day!

Isn't it pretty with the beautiful aqua binding?

More Sew Cherry love!

I love the aqua against the pretty pinks.

I hope you've enjoyed looking at all the photos of my pretty lap quilt, it's so nice to be able to share with my quilty friends.

Lulu quilt

I enter contests sometimes on Instagram, and this time I won!

I won bigtime!!!

I won this pattern by Gigi's Thimble which is made with a jelly roll.

As a bonus, Stephanie @stuphfromsteph gave the generous offer of machine quilting the quilt top :)

Steph even said that she would pay for the return shipping.

I had a jelly roll I was saving for a special project.

Sew Cherry, Lori Holt's first fabric line!

It's my favorite ever!!!

I got busy cut the jelly roll up and went crazy chain piecing.

I had to take a photo of the process, the fabric is so beautiful and so colorful.

I finished sewing all my blocks, 16 of them in all.

To make sure the low volumes and bright colors were evenly placed, I took a tonal photograph.

It looks good to me :)

Here are all the blocks laid out, with the borders, before I sewed them together.
I had to add a few extra pieces, but made sure that they were all designed by Lori Holt.
I don't know if you can spot them...

Yay, I finished my quilt top, I love the explosion of color.

I can hardly wait to get my quilt in the mail.

I'll show it to you when it's quilted and bound :)