Great Granny Quilt Finished!

This is a quilt I made with Lori Holt, on her Great Granny Sew Along, 2 years ago.

I had so much fun making it, but it sat on my railing for a long time, waiting to be quilted.

I finally took it to my wonderful long arm quilter/friend Cindy Paulson, and she did an awesome job as usual!

See the pops of black in the quilt and the binding?

Do you know Greg from grey dogwood studio?

Click here and you can find out the cute story...

My quilt is made up of mostly Pam Kitty fabrics, except for the balls of yarn.

I just love her style, so what do I do?
I collect her fabric of course!

The strawberries worked out so beautifully for the border!

See all the pretty roses in the quilting?

I backed the quilt with some pink cherry fabric from Lori Holt's Bake Sale line.

This is one of my favorite quilts and I get to keep it!

This sew along kept me great company, and I have a lot of fond memories of the experience :)

AYOS and a little bit more - February

I loved February's parttern, it was Fig Tree's Mini Jumping Jacks.

I chose Pam Kitty fabrics because they're bright and happy.

The orange fabric with the flowers by the blue dot is Flower Sugar.

I used a text fabric for the sashing just because I love text fabric!

I love this color combo, it's the traditional Union Jack colors.

I'm Canadian and this used to be our flag until 1967 when Canada was 100 years old.

I used to draw this flag all the time in Elementary school and it was really hard to get the right dimensions because the lines are different widths.

This block should have had a yellow dot, so I'll be turning this one into a real little mini mini :)

Here are my little blocks :)

Each one measures 8 l/2" X 9 l/4".

I used an older Flower Sugar pattern for the back, and a black and white houndstooth to match the text sashing.

I machine quilted in the ditch, around the sashing and each jumping jack block.

The finished quilt is 21 l/2" X 29 l/2".

I really love it!

You can see the parade of other quilts like mine at A Quilting Life and Pink Pincushion.

Great Granny Sew Along

I'm having so much fun making Lori Holt's Great Granny quilt.

Here are the first and second blocks that I made.

I am using mostly Pam Kitty fabric with a touch of Lori Holt.

I thought Greg's quilt looked so beautiful with the black trim, making the pink colors pop.

I wished that I had picked up some black, but it never appealed to me, until I saw Greg's quilt.

Greg from Grey Dogwood Studio said that he would send me some of his black Pam Kitty scraps to use in my Great Granny quilt.

I am in between trips today, and was able to check the mail.

Look what I found!

A beautifully wrapped package tied with a lovely green ribbon :)

Greg sent me 1/4 yard pieces, he is very generous and thoughtful :)

I can hardly wait to have time to sew again, so I can incorporate these beautiful black pieces amongst the rest of my Pam Kitty squares for the Mama blocks.

I encourage all of you to check out Greg's blog, it is eye candy!

He writes about all his gorgeous projects, and he has a great talent for choosing colors.

He is a quilting inspiration!

Great Granny Sew Along

I can't resist joining any of Lori Holt's (Bee in my Bonnet) sew alongs!

This is the first block.

A tisket, a tasket, a basket full of yarn, or Easter Eggs :)

I'm using mostly Pam Kitty fabrics, they're so vibrant and cheerful!