Finished Owl quilt

I finished the owl quilt in the nick of time and gave it to Ashley at her baby shower for Makenzie Jillynn on Saturday February 11th. I think it turned out great and can add it to my finished projects for the year. Yeah me!!!  I started this blog to inspire me to finish my many UFO's that have been waiting for years to be finished. Instead I continue to want to start new ones and I have chosen to do so again.  I am starting the Dear Jane Rainbow quilt.  It will be a work in progress for a while.  It has 255 blocks and many of them are applique and I have never been successful at applique. So this may not have been a brilliant choice for me but I am drawn to the history of the quilt and couldn't resist it once I saw it in the rainbow colors. I am going to start posting them as I complete each block to inspire me to keep going and maybe inspire you to give this quilt a shot.  I have completed 4 blocks in the last five days so not a bad start.

Here is the quilt top with all the owls in the window with there big eyes.  I made the eyes by cutting out a 1-1/4 inch circle from thin felt.  I actually was able to stamp them out with a paper scrap booking stamp.  The dark part of their eyes I cut out 1-1/8th inch circles out of fabric that I though would make good eyes.  I put silver stickers on the fabric and then cut out around them.  Then I just layered them on top of my larger eye cut outs and sewed them onto the owls.  The picture below is how I decided would be the best way to fussy cut my eyes for the owls.

Pink Owl

Brown Owl

Ashley wanted a pink and brown baby quilt for Madelyn so I designed these owls for her.  Ashley likes stars so I added some stars in it for her.  I just imagine the quilt is really the night time view out of Madelyn's window.  The owls are her guardians watching over her by night.  I have the quilt top made and have one week to finish the rest of it before the baby shower. I just got the fabric for the back and am washing it so I can hopefully get it ironed and layered together tomorrow. At least after my 4 year old's grand-daughter's birthday party at Chucke Cheese's tomorrow.

Stars