Ingrid Whitcher

The wedding quilt is done with 3 days to spare! I finished the binding yesterday while watching Nexflix with the kids. It is in the wash today.

Emilie agreed to help with taking the photos. Warning – there are a lot of pictures. She took about 50 pictures, so it was super hard to limit it to 7. =)

So far it is still a surprise for the bride. She had talked to Emilie in February to see if maybe she would be getting one. At the time, I was up to my eyeballs in show stuff and Emilie told her that probably not since I was so busy. Em didn’t know that I had already started planning it.

Here are the next two postcards. I am having so much fun with these. I am glad Emma is enjoying them!

F is for Frog

The frog is black velvet.

G is for Garrett and Gus

These are the last 3 dolls. The next set, I am going to attempt arms.

The ruching on the shawl is my favorite. But the wedding dress is a close second. The options are endless!

The wedding quilt is done – at least the quilting is done! I am blocking the quilt. To do this, I put the quilt in my bathtub with cool water and agitate it. This removes all the blue ink I used for marking and gets the quilt nice and wet. I then lay it flat on the floor of the studio with a fan on it. It is important to not move it until it is completely dry. This helps get rid of any distortion that occurred with the quilting. I then square up the quilt before putting the binding on. This is another reason that I always pre-wash my fabrics. If it is going to bleed, this is the time that it is really bad, since it is so wet and just laying there.

On Monday, I had the privilege to meet a wonderful group of ladies. I presented my Fear-less Curves program to the Fairhope Quilt Guild. It is a small group of ladies whom all like quilting!

They meet in a wonderful building full of art. antiques and murals. My son really liked the antique chairs, covered in red velvet.

The lilies were blooming and I got some neat pictures – possible quilt ideas. =)

The wedding quilt is coming along but not ready for pictures yet. I decided to share some photos that my daughter took recently. She gets such interesting angles and beautiful pictures. I really like the view of the wedding quilt from my needle!