Fabric is talking to me now

This pink and cocoa fabric screamed my name when I saw it and I was immediately inspired for my next quilt. I may even attempt a different pattern and will toy around with machine quilting, instead of hand-tying (but not on this gorgeous Michael Miller stuff!). No room for mistakes here. LOL.

Funky Sock Monkey Quilt

Here it is - my first handmade quilt! I love it.



Dimensions came out to be 54" x 54" with a thin cotton batting. Since I'm a novice quilter, I hand-tied it with perle cotton, but after seeing the beautiful machine quilted job my mentor did on her quilt, I reeeeaaaally want to learn that soon. It's hard to see the detail in these photos, but the brown background fabric is that of the actual brown socks used to make sock monkeys. So cute.



Sophia here trying to assist. Making sure measurements are correct I suppose. She really liked her quilt. I think she was taken by all the colors.

Sock Monkeys!

I just love Sock Monkeys and I was able to get my hands on this cutesy Moda Sock Monkey fabric. What's it for? A quilt! I'm currently working on a quilt with a group of mommies in my SAHM playgroup. I'm hoping to have it finished within a few days. I'll plan to snap a few pics of the quilts my friends are working on too. The fabric choices they have these days. Oh, so fun! One of the moms talked about how fabric *talks* to her. Now I know what she means. Stay tuned for the results...