Norma Jeane Quilt (Finished)

Friday, December 28, 2012

This quilt was a gift to a family that we are REALLY good friends with.  You know, the kind of friends that are practically family?  The ones you have a million memories with.  The ones you go on trips with.  The ones you entrust your kids to (the one and only time that you need to leave them for a few nights.  I know my husband and I really need to get away more:)  
So ever since they watched our kids for us a couple of years ago, I had been telling them that I was going to make them a quilt.  So last August when we were on a trip together in St. George, UT. I took Lisa fabric/pattern shopping.  Lisa was immediately drawn to this pattern by Basic Grey (called Norma Jeane) featuring Basic Grey's new fabric line called Little Black Dress.


We bought a few cuts from that fabric line and then I filled in with a bunch of other fabrics from my stash that I had actually been collecting for their quilt (glad we were on the same page color-wise!)


Lisa really wanted black minky on the back so that's what I did!  However, since I used a really light sashing (Odds and Ends Vintage 37048 11 by Moda to be exact) and a solid cream fabric for the border the black showed through a little bit.  But I think it looks o.k.! 


I added an extra row of pinwheels onto the side and bottom of the quilt so it ended up being a nice throw size.  I think it measured about 56" x 72".  There were forty-eight 6" pinwheels.  192 half-square triangles.  I trimmed and squared up each one so it'd be extra purdy :)  

We were able to deliver this quilt to our friends last Saturday during our annual night of pizza, bowling and dessert with the kiddos.  (FYI - the restaurant we went to is called The Rusted Sun and it's definitely a favorite, yet very small pizza joint that I highly recommend - yum yum!)  Our friends seemed sincerely excited and so appreciative about the quilt.  And I enjoyed every minute of working on it and LOVED giving it to such wonderful friends!

15 comments:

  1. What a lovely quilt. Love the colour combination.
    Leigh
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  2. Very nice quilt! And that black minky is sooo luscious.

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  3. It is beautiful and I am sure that they loved it.

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  4. Wonderful quilt. Love the colour combination.

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  5. A lovely gift! I love giving quilts when they are loved ; )

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  6. Gorgeous quilt...love the black minky!

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  7. I really like the colors she picked. It's nice to have someone special to make a quilt for. And you know they will use it & appreciate it. Especially with a minky back! Who can resist that?! Great work!

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  8. Very pretty, love the black and white combo:)

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  9. Oh wow - it looks beautiful! I have a quilt kit for this, I really loved the colors! I have some finishes to do before I start it though - but the minky on the back really looks good - I might have to consider having it on mine too!

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  10. You did a beautiful job on this; love everything about it! What a wonderful gift to your friends.

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  11. This is beautiful! Love the colors and the backing. Isn't it wonderful to gift somehting you have put time and effort into knowing that they will appreciate it?

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  12. Wow Amber -- it's gorgeous! What a wonderful gift. Thanks for the inspiration too -- a quilt like that would be perfect for some family friends of ours!

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  13. Lovely, absolutely lovely. You are very clever

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