Ruffle Garden

 I have one more Christmas Gift to share with you.  (Even though it was given a few weeks after Christmas!) This was probably my favorite gift to make this year.  I LOVED the entire process!  But, I need to rewind a little bit to tell you how it came about.  Last May after I had Micah and while we were in Florida, I had so much fun spending time with my sisters.  On one of our dinners out (we laughed and giggled sooo much!) we went into JCPenney.  While just browsing around, my sister Keela saw a quilt with horizontal ruffles on it.  She loved it!  From that moment on, my mind has been dreaming about ways to recreate it for her.  I knew I wanted to use my Simply Sweet Fabric for sure.   Then, when I received a Dresden ruler for Christmas I knew I wanted to add one of those.  So....it doesn't exactly look like the original.  But, I love how it turned out!

This is another one of those projects that took a couple of calls to Mom to try and figure out how to do the ruffles with a raw edge, yet still seeing the beautiful fabric.  Thanks for the help, Mom!

 I've also been playing around with binding techniques (I'm horrible at hand stitching)  I used a blanket stitch on this one and I think it might be my new way to attach the bindings.

I named this quilt "Ruffle Garden" and sent it off, stitched with love, to my amazing older sister Keela!  (I had to throw in the "older" because she's been told a couple of times that they thought she was the younger.  What?)  Love you sis!

I'm linking up with Crazy Mom again for her Finish it UP Friday!