farmyard friends

This is the first quilt made for one of my 2 expected grandchildren, due 2 weeks apart in October.

It is an Ella and Skysie design. The stitchery was my first attempt at such a large backstitch project (my stem stitch is discusting, can't do it and probably never will attempt it again) and turned out not too bad.

I really thought I would get bored and toss it in the too hard basket, but surprisingly after I did the first one, I thought 'mmm not so bad after all', then by the third one I thought 'I can do this'

By the time I finished the 12th I was looking for more. The origional one was done in brown stitching and patches with mainly blues in the 4 patches. I changed it to pastels and did the stitchery in different pastel colors. I also added an extra patched border because I wanted it larger to be used as a cot quilt.