In 2013, I had a couple of ladies contact me about making some quilts. I told them I would, and they described what they wanted. I couldn't find a pattern, so I decided to come up with my own. This is what I came up with:
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All done and my little grandson loves it. |
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Twin size. Super heroes. Made by my daughter Jennifer for her little guys first birthday. She chose to tie this one. Love it.
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Well, I got the quilts done, and I had made notes, just in case I ever wanted to do them again.
Fast forward to earlier this year, when I was reading a newsletter from a fellow Quilter and learned about a pattern writing series hosted by Cheryl over at
http://meadowmistdesigns.blogspot.com/p/pattern-writing-blog-series.html?m=1. I started reading it, and decided why not finish writing the pattern I had started before. So, I wrote, sent copies to my daughters and revised. Then I had 1 of my daughters do some computer drawings. Yes, they both proof read again, could understand everything and then it was time to test. I asked both if they would make 1 up. They were more than willing to.
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Crib quilt from the pattern. Will be backed with green fleece. Made by my daughter, Krystal. I will quilt this on my machine quilting frame. |
We did a quilt along on the blog, and made sure all revisions were made. Everything went well.
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Queen sized quilt that my daughter is hand quilting. This was done during the quilt along just before the pattern was released. |
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Up close look at some quilting, as well, as the fabric. |
Then I got this crazy idea why not publish it as a pdf. So, I had one daughter working on figuring out how to do craftsy and get our pattern on there. I enlisted the help of my daughters as I work full time.
So then we had to get a quilt done for the cover. 1 is sitting in my quilting room waiting to be quilted. 1 daughter was tying hers for her little guys first birthday and the other daughter is hand quilting hers. So, I asked my daughter who was tying hers if we could use it for the cover. She was more than willing.
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our cover quilt.
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GIVEAWAY TIME: how would two of my readers like to win a pdf of the pattern? All you have to do is leave a comment, then we will use a random number generator to choose 2 winners. The contest will go until August 10th. If you want to purchase the pattern, you can do that
here. The sizes include: crib, twin, and queen. Please share with your friends.
Kathy, this is no small feat! Congratulation to the publication of your first pattern. =)
ReplyDeleteThank you. It was fun but a lot of work.
DeleteGreat job on finishing your quilt pattern! I have like 3 in the works. I just need to get past that testing phase. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Jen. I have at least 1 more in my head, maybe more.
DeleteCongratulations on your first pattern publication. May it be beginning of many more. A fun design to showcase those great novelty prints.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cat Lady. I hope there are more to come. I love quilts where you can showcase novelty prints.
DeleteSounds like it was a lot of work so great job on putting the pattern all together. Karen
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your first pattern!
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