Doll Quilt for my Friend's Granddaughter
 

About a month ago, I volunteered to make doll quilts for a friend's granddaughters. My friend is lucky enough to have five granddaughters, and her own daughter is expecting another baby. Will there be another? My friend gave me a little run down on the girls' favorite colors and what sorts of things they
like. I decided to start with the oldest, age 10, and move on down the line by age. The first granddaughter plays the flute, and her favorite color is purple. I did an internet search for "flute player quilt patterns," and came up with a quilt called (not surprisingly) "The Flute Player Quilt," designed by Joyce Mori.

http://www.freepatterns.com/detail.h...365&cat_id=436

The quilt was a little larger than I wanted it, and so I only used the center kokopelli motif in my doll quilt. I had intended to just add some borders around it, but I was hoping for something a little fancier than just strips of fabric. And then I happened upon another quilt called "Tuxedo Cats" that appeared in the Summer, 2011, issue of Fons & Porters Easy Quilts, which had a really nice sashing I thought would work well for my border. So I combined elements of both quilts and came up with this:

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Stunning quilt, you did a fantastic job, cant wait to see the rest.

Very cute. Will look forward to the rest of them.

What a great job.

greatttttttttttttt love it

She is gonna love this!!!

The neat thing about this and those to come is that what are doll quilts now can be wall hangings as they grow older. This one is gorgeous.

Beautiful. The blue is really striling.