My First Quilt!

It all started when my darling Mother-in-law made a jean quilt for Jarett on his mission.

 She worked hard and was going to finish it for his homecoming, but then she thought, "What if Jarett's wife doesn't like the material I choose for this?"  Translation: "Well, I'm done the fun part and I could use this as an excuse to make Jarett's wife do all the hard stuff." (my interpretation may be completely off, but no promises either way).

Regardless of what the case may be, I finally started this quilt last summer while we were staying with Jarett's parents.  I fell in love with the apple fabric that I saw at Fabricland and it was even on sale because of a store relocation.  SOLD!  I trimmed the quilt, appliqued, cut & added batting, framed and backed the quilt and then stopped for the summer.  I didn't know what else to do.  I have never done a quilt before (so I needed to help) and things got hectic near the end of the summer.

Since returning to Calgary this month to move here, my sister has pushed me to get the binding done so that we could start another quilt project before she ditches out and moves to Maryland (another post to come about this).  So, she showed me how and I've been working on it for about a week and a half (along with us juggling 8 kids) and I finished it TODAY!!  I'm so excited.  Anyway, enough to do about quilting - hope you enjoyed the pictures!

At least I know that Jaymeson likes it!

He really can't stay off of it.