Bloggers Quilt Festival

Amy hosts this fantastic Bloggers Quilt Festival.  I think this is a lovely way to see other quilts and visit other blogs one may usually not read....

As a new blogger and a relatively new quilter this is the first Quilt Festival I have shown a quilt on.  I hope you enjoy reading about this quilt it as much as I enjoyed making it.

I made this quilt this year.  It is a cuddle quilt for my third grandson and it is special as it is made of clothes that he wore in his first year...........

I have to say it was a bit of a nightmare to sew with the little stretchy fabrics and I had quite a bit of difficulty in matching blocks to include special pictures/clothes so they were features on the quilt.  The free motion quilting (I did a large wriggle) was difficult as the fabric is not flat and smooth.  However, it is a lovely cuddly quilt and holds such a lot of memories and special items of clothing.

I used cotton wadding and the quilt is backed and bound with flannel from the little man's wraps and sheets.

He loves it too............

Unfortunately I only recently started quilting and my first two grandchildren have not had these - but I so enjoyed making this little quilt that this years model and future grandchildren (there is one already growing for next year) will have them ...... and we are collecting T shirts for the older boys...

Thanks for popping in and reading about my quilt......

I am off now over HERE to have a look see at what other quilters are showing.