Thursday, October 4, 2007

Hitting The Bull's Eye



My second quilt was also a gift from my mother-in-law. It was given me in September right before my husband's 25th birthday (and I might add that I was expecting our first baby and didn't yet know it). It was a beautiful quilt kit intended to make the Bull's Eye pattern from a book she also gave me called Quilts from Aunt Amy. It is an easy and interesting pattern where you cut circles and then stack them, slice them and sew them back up again! I tied it with natural cotton, which I might add gave me blisters on my needle finger because tying a cotton batted and cotton top with cotton yarn is very difficult!

I hope you are encouraged to make this awesome pattern some time from your own stash of scraps. I have since made three others and cut out a fourth for my mother-in-law to do, I am not sure she has tried yet. The first picture is of the actual example and the second is my husband's birthday gift from four years ago, obviously with the conceived addition in the flesh (I am sure when he is twenty he will hate me for showing this picture off but the quilt is honestly the focus)!!