Oh Fransson | Miss Muffet Quilts

I can’t believe it has been almost 2 months since my last post – amazing how time flies when you are busy. Thankfully I have finished marking finals for the semester, and inputted all my marks. I finally have some time in my evenings catch up of some sewing and get some blogging in. Remember this quilt from early this year? Well I finally found some time to get it finished. The quilting is a pattern of random squares, and the quilt is backed with a fabric from Connecting Threads.

The quilt top was made with scraps of Dr. Seuss fabric that I had left over from the other quilts I have made over the last year and a half or so. The pattern is Improv Pods from Elizabeth Hartman’s Craftsy class.

This is also my first finish for the Fourth quarter of the 2013 Finish a Long! Yay!

My little brother had a very good friend get married this summer and he asked if I could make them a quilt. I had this quilt top in my sewing room when he asked, and when he saw it he thought it would be perfect. So I got to work quilting. He requested that the quilting have horseshoes in it (was part of their wedding decor), so I did a simple stipple with occasional horseshoes. The horseshoes are about 4″ in size.

The letters for the smaller words were made using the Refrigerator Magnets pattern from Elizabeth Hartman that I modified to make the letters a little wider. The LOVE in the middle I drew up my own patterns for. Each letter in LOVE is 15″ finished!

On the back of the quilt I used a solid brown, then appliqued on a heart with the bride and groom’s names with their wedding date. When I quilted this part, I kept the heart shape, so you can see the outline of the heart on the front!