asked me about the bear quilt. So here's the story. I bought the center bear panel
at our local Wal-Mart store. Our son is such an outdoorsman - loves all kinds of hunting and fishing, so I thought I would do something with this for him. I thought and thought and thought (really I was busy doing other things, but I bet even when ya'll are doing something else, you're planning your next quilt project!!). I really like pine tree blocks, but have never made any, but went through my scraps and put together blues, greens and browns for the trees - I had to shop for some more greens to have a variety. So as I was piecing the tree blocks, I began imagining a twin size bed quilt and trying to figure out how to make it fit. So I designed the bears paws walking across the forest floor
Then I needed something on the top, so took some deer blocks and pieced them in the center of Ohio Star blocks on point (Ohio Stars are my absolutely favorite block!)
I had extra of this fabric and made pillow cases and backing for throw pillows to match.
For the border, I used a brown fabric with oak leaves and acorns, and the binding was the same fabric in forest green.
I outline quilted the medallion, the bear paws, and deer star blocks. The sashings, borders and triangle blocks were zig zag to represent mountains. On the forest floor, I quilted acorns and oak leaves in the midst of cross hatching (my favorite quilting design). I won't tell you how long it took me, but Rygh loves it!!
Blessings!
P.S. It turned out to be a full-sized quilt! Much better!
1 comment:
I love it, too! It caught my attention the first time I visited your blog because it reminded me of a quilt I made for my daughter years ago. I will write a post about it some other time. I love what you did here. So many clever ideas coordinated into one great guy quilt!
Thanks for sharing this--it is wonderful. And thanks for considering me your blogging friend!
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