Girls Quilt


 I'm in love with my god child Carla. She will turn two in February. Sad thing is, I can only see her a couple times a year since she lives in Germany. To have something special for her, I decided on making a quilt. I still have a lot of leftover fabric from New York, which I collected from exhibitors when they had already left the building after the show had closed.

I cut a lot of pinkish fabric in squares and laid them out on the batting which is about 90cmx200cm.
                                                                       

After laying it all out, I didn't like it at all! I decided to buy more fabric...
I found some really cute girls dresses, cut them in little squares and sewed it all together.


The dress had white/yellow flowers and bows on it. After cutting all of those out, I sewed them to my new little squares.

Sewed on the bows.


Stitched a stem to the flower
Handstitched buttons


Can you see it?
C a r l a




and of course a flower!

Here is the top part of the quilt


pink and white dotted fabric and pink fabric with white dots and monkeys.

Sewed on a butterly and handstitched its tail and antenna
attached another little yellow bow

a little white flower (which was also on the little girls dress)

Here is the middle and bottom part of the quilt


           

                         

  a butterly with buttons


The completed quilt in its various shades of pink

after the front side was done...
 

I pinned the fabric to the batting and turned it over,
so that the batting was on top.
I sewed leftover monkey and white dotted fabric together, so that it was the same width and length as the front.





Pinned bot sides to the batting





and sewed it together





after the outer sides were all attached to the batting, I took light pink satin blanket binding; wrapped it around both sides and pinned it together.






I sewed all four sides to the binding and here it is, my first quilt














Merry Christmas little Carla!
 I hope you can play on it, sleep under and have wonderful dreams.
I love you!

Carina








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Comments

moonsword said…
It came out beautifully...what a wonderful gift for a girl.
Thanks for sharing. I found you through Today's Creative Blog.
Cheers!
December 28, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Unknown said…
Cute quilt. Loves of fun details.
December 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Becca Ross said…
Beautiful quilt! I'd love it if you'd come link up to my Home and Family Friday linky party.

Becca
becca-homeiswheremystorybegins.blogspot.com
December 30, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Jennifer said…
This is so beautiful!! You put so much work and time into it but it really paid off. It's just lovely! Thanks for linking up this week!
December 30, 2011 at 8:58 PM
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