Raindrops Quilt

Rain is one of my favorite kinds of weather.  It's very calming to me.  Of course, in Utah it doesn't rain all that much, so I welcome the change.  I decided to make a raindrop quilt to hang on my wall in the spring. 

I appliqued the raindrops on -- I have done very little applique.  The raindrops are not evenly distributed -- this was intentional, as rain does not fall evenly.

The quilting is straight lines -- which took a while because I didn't want to quilt over the raindrops.  I considered trying "Trupunto" on the raindrops, but chickened out.  Leaving the raindrops unquilted still lets them poof out a little bit.

 

I'm still a little uncertain -- one minute I love it, the next minute I wish I had been more careful about the raindrop angles/placement/shape.  And in the pictures above there is one background color that looks way off -- the light blue.  It doesn't look quite that drastic in person.  Here it is on the wall. 

 

One great thing is that this one was on my Finish-A-Long list for this quarter.  It's almost time to link up, so I'm glad it's finished in time.   

I am linking up at She Can Quilt - Finish-A-Long Q1.

Baby Girl Quilt

Remember the Dolls Like Me quilt drive?  Well, everyone who submitted a quilt was entered into a drawing for some prizes.  And I won a prize!  A very generous prize.  It was a fat quarter bundle from Art Gallery Fabric -- Lambkin.  I was very excited because I have a good friend who is having a baby and I thought this would be perfect.  So I made this quilt:

 

 The fabric was very cute, but I wish I would have chosen a different pattern.  The original pattern had a lot more contrast between the different fabrics.  I think this needed it.  Looking at the picture, I'm starting to wonder if it's just that I'm not used to using such soft, pastel colors.  The quilt is really quite pretty.  In a house full of boys, you just don't get soft and pretty very often.  :)

And I'm not sure if the quilting pattern distracts too.  Or maybe the fact that I chose a pink thread.  You can't see it well in the picture, but maybe I should have stuck to white.  Oh well, at least I tried something new.   And just look how cute that fabric is!  Those little lambs are adorable.

 And I actually really like the back of the quilt!  Simple, but I like it.

So I ended up giving my friend this other quilt.  It was good because she said that quilt matched her nursery.  yay!  I'll save this one for someone else.