Friday, July 30, 2010

Finished For Friday: Black, White and Red All Over Quilt

I am linking in with Lit and Laundry for a Finished for Friday post. I wanted to share my finished project with you this week as it involved a quilt I made for my niece for graduation.

My niece graduated from my old High School in May of this year. I knew I wanted to make her a quilt, but I wanted to first find out where she was going off to college and try to incorporate her new school colors with her High School colors.

It just so happens that her college colors were the same as her high school colors, red, black and white. So that made it really easy. This quilt has over 30 different fabrics in it. The reds alone were over 20, most were all from the local quilt shop, one was a vintage fabric. I think they all worked so well together.

The blacks were about 11 different fabrics. The new school mascot is a Bulldog, and I was lucky enough to find fabric with tiny dog prints in the fabric. I really like how it turned out.

The back was a small stripe with all the colors in the front and I added a pieced strip to the center of the quilt.

Here is a close up of the fabric.... and the stippling quilting.

I never realized how hard it is to photograph red fabric, I had to really move this around in the light for the colors to come out close to being correct.

The small outer border is the same fabric I used in my daughters graduation quilt from college. I really liked that print and was glad I had enough left over to add to this quilt.

I had her name and year she graduated monogrammed  in the corner of the quilt border in red.

Here is the quilt label. I used one of her graduation photos to add to the label. For the binding, I used a very small black dotted print. I like how it turned out.

Here it is all wrapped up and ready to go. I met my niece for lunch to present her with this gift. I could have given her a gift of money, but wanted to give her something more personal that would far outlast money. I hope one day she will look back on this and have fond memories of this time in her life and her Aunt who made this for her.

Here is my niece, Kinzie with her quilt. She is such a cutie!! I told her that this will be the happiest time in her life, to make the most of it. It only comes once in a lifetime. I am not sure she really understands what that means, but one day she will look back and know exactly what I meant by those words. Good Luck Kinzie as you start this new journey...work hard, play hard and enjoy this time in your life! I love you sweet girl!!!

23 comments:

  1. Terrific quilt! Great colors and I just love bar quilts!

    Look how far you've come from when you were just thinking you wanted to start quilting! Its been fun being on this journey with you!

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  2. Suzanne,
    What a sweet and thoughtful gift. It is beautiful!

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  3. Oh my Suzanne, the quilt took a lot of planning and time I'm sure and it turned out wonderful.

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  4. What a wonderful thoughtful gift.
    Its striking and lovely.
    Kathy

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  5. Absolutely FABULOUS!!!
    Great job!! (Do you have a quilting machine??)

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  6. It is said, practice makes perfect. I do believe you are headed in that direction with your quilt making. Another super job. Pictures do not do your work justice.

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  7. What a wonderful heart felt gift to your niece. It is one that she will treasure forever!! Fabulous job!!!

    Love,
    Susan and Bentley
    xxoo

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  8. That is lovely!!! Red and black look so dramatic together - my fav combination!

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  9. Beautiful quilt. She is a lucky girl to have an Aunt like you. Someday she will be so happy to have these memories.

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  10. Oh my that is so beautiful! And such an amazing gift she will treasure forever.

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  11. That is a phenomenal gift. You really do beautiful work Suzanne.

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  12. Oh my, how beautiful is that and a treasure she will have for the rest of her life. you are very talented. Thanks for sharing that lovely quilt with us.

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  13. Oh Suzanne- beautiful. (the niece and the quilt !)

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  14. Beautiful job Suzanne & the personal touches make it extra special.

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  15. What a beautiful quilt! I know your niece will cherish it for years to come.

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  16. I love it! What striking colors. All those reds add so much depth to it. I love the border fabric too. What a wonderful gift. Thanks so much for linking up to Finished for Friday!

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  17. Wow , you are talented the quilt came out beautiful.

    Also thank you so much for stopping by my blog for Vintage Thingy Thursday. Your comment really made my day!

    :) Michelle

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  18. You're such a good auntie! What a beautiful gift that I'm sure she'll cherish forever. I'm so glad you signed and dated the quilt. This is so important for quilters to do.

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  19. How smart and sweet you are to make such a pretty gift for your niece!!! It's beautiful! I hope you will check out my blog (Counting My Blessings) http://mawdot.blogspot.com/2010/07/joe-embry-sends-you-his-thanks.html)today (July 30) as Joe is sending his thanks to you and other who prayed for him while he was recovering from his burns. We kept him posted as who was praying and sending cards, etc. Thanks for taking time out of your busy life to pray and encourage him. He and his wife ate lunch with us today and he is doing well, but still has a lot of healing to do yet. Love you!

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  20. Oh, my! What a wonderful post! I love the quilt and what a beautiful keepsake for your niece ... a very lovely young lady. Reading your post almost brought tears to my eyes ... thanks for sharing this!

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  21. Beautiful quilt and wonderful gift for your niece!

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  22. Beautiful! Red, black and white is always a stunning combination. I love the scrappiness of this one.

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  23. Quilt is Beautiful. I have a question though. How did you make the label? I have a gift I am making and want to put a similar label on it.

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Thank you for stopping by and leaving your thoughts here, they really mean a lot to me!

Suzanne

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