This is a project that I did a couple of years ago but it was so painful I decided to document it. I found a book at a used bookstore called Quilting with the Muppets. My sister in law loves Sesame Street and the Muppets so I had a brilliant idea that I could make a quilt for her as a special Christmas or birthday gift. I'm not a great quilter, actually I'm a bit of a hack when it comes to quilting. Nothing ever lines up perfectly and the whole thing ends up uneven. This quilt was no different--it's totally uneven and most of my squares ended up being different sizes. Since they are all muppets I guess the asymetry of it adds to the character. I used patterns from the book and some patterns from coloring books that my sister in law had. It took forever to cut out little pattern pieces out of tracing paper and then cut out the same pieces from the fabric. When I finally finished I was so frustrated that I threw out all of the pattern pieces. Then a friend asked me to make her the same quilt if she ever has a baby and I wished I would have kept the pattern pieces. I used an ironable adhesive to put everything together and then outlined things with puffy paint. It probably would have looked nice to applique the pieces down, but I don't really have the skill. It was a great project to use up leftover fabric scraps. I was really happy with the multi-color triangle border and I decided to maching quilt, also something I'm not very skilled at. Like always I was working until the last minute to finish it before Christmas, which probably contributed to the whole thing being uneven. Here are some close ups, unfortunately these were taken with a very old digital camera so it is hard to see the detail.
