A squirrel!: I made a quilt for a good friend who loves dachshunds. I decided around Christmas to make this quilt and ordered the pattern online. Once it arrived, I started working on the quilt, rather than leave it until "later". I had the deadline of Maree's birthday on 16th February to finish it.
This was the first time I'd used an Elizabeth Hartman pattern, and won't be the last. It was easy to follow and well-written. The four dog blocks came together over two days in January, and adding the other parts of the quilt top was relatively quick and easy. I thought this quilt really deserved a special quilting pattern so I outsourced the quilting to Sharron at Shadow's Quilting. She did a great job using an edge to edge pattern of dogs and paw prints. I hope Maree likes this quilt.
After quilting and washing, the quilt shrank 1.25" across and 1.75" down - to be expected. Although I used colour catchers in the wash, there was some slight bleeding of the bright pink trims on the pink sweatered dog, through to the backing fabric. I noticed it but hope that not many others would see it.
Maree's quilt: finished size = 54.25" x 68.75" (138 x 175 cm.) All fabric from stash. I made a backing for the longarm quilter so I could use up more stash fabric rather than buy the backing from her.
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