Right now this is the quilt I'm most proud of. It's for my DD#2. She's 10. Ever since she was old enough to make her thoughts known, her favorite color has been this turquoise blue color. I'd been looking for just the right pattern and colors to make her a bed quilt. Her sister was much easier, she likes pink, and yellow.
I had just finished making this same pattern, Knotted Squares using a jelly roll, and she said she really liked the pattern. So we set about pulling one together for her. The turquoise solid is exactly the color her bedroom walls are painted. I found the border fabric, which has blue with pink and yellow roses. These were the inspiration for finding the other 35 fabrics to make to blocks. I needed 1 jelly roll strip of each. It took for many hours or sorting through my meager stash, and several trips to the fabric store to find all the fabrics.
Each block has 27 pieces and matching the seams is really important to me, so I'd sit for hours pinning each segment together before chain piecing the pile. Then stand for what seemed like forever to press each seam (open) before beginning the process all over pinning for the next piece.
Once the quilt top was made, I spent a few days auditioning how I would fmq. I settled on SID around all the solid piecing, vines and leaves in the narrow parts, and doing a big chrysanthemum type flower to fill in the larger blocks.
I also wanted to incorporate the label into the binding, so I stitched out the information and her favorite Bible verso onto the binding with my Janome 6600 before attaching it.
Anyway, i hope the link works, as I've never tried to add a photo.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/535083999448174732/