Pink Elephant Quilt

Last summer I was contacted to do my first ever "commission" quilt.  I was very excited about it and got right to work.  My guidelines were that the quilt had to be a certain finished size, and should include pink, white, gray, navy, and elephants.

I sent my client several mockups of designs that I came up with, including these 6 (made with EQ6 software):

She chose the third one and I added the elephant to the design like this:

The hardest part of making this whole quilt was choosing the fabrics from what I found online!  It is so hard to match colors between fabric lines and manufacturers and I ended up dissing a couple of the fabrics that I ordered online.

Here is the final fabric pull:

Once the design was finalized and the fabrics were chosen, the easy part was the sewing!

I backed the quilt with Minky at the request of my client and I used spray basting to keep it from slipping while quilting.  I quilted straight lines 1/4" from each seam in the quilt.  I actually appliqued the elephant after I did the quilting because I wanted to see all the straight lines on the back of the quilt.

Here is the finished product, it ended up super cute!

Wonky Irish Chain

In 2015, I participated in a QAL with Melissa at Happy Quilting.  Then I got her book about Irish Chain Quilts for Christmas that year and I decided to make one of the quilts in her book, the Wonky Irish Chain Quilt.

I chose the Wonky Irish Chain because I wanted to use up some of my rainbow scraps and I had a fun backing that I thought would go well with the quilt.  Spoiler alert: I used up almost no scraps and the backing ended up not matching!  Oh well!

For some reason, I have no pictures of the process of making this quilt?  So just enjoyed the finished pics!