25 Blocks Finished!

Today I finished quilting the final 4 of 25 blocks of my Two Grandmothers baby quilt.  I have some new followers.  If that describes you, you can read the history of this quilt right here.  And welcome to my blog!  I'm so glad you're here.  I've been working on quilting this all week.  You can see the other blocks here, and here, and here.  Oh yes, and right here.  Phew!  That's a lot of days spent quilting!

Here's what I did today.  First, Mary had a Little Lamb.  If you'll recall, Mary had a lamb that followed her to school one day.

Since I had already determined that I was too inartistic to draw a lamb, I decided to go for the school.  I quilted little schoolhouses and a path leading up to them.  Then I did a sort of micro-stippling in the lamb for his wool.

Do you remember Little Boy Blue?

Little Boy Blue,

Come blow your horn,

The sheep's in the meadow,

The cow's in the corn;

Where is that boy

Who looks after the sheep?

Under the haystack

Fast asleep.

Will you wake him?

Oh no, not I,

For if I do

He will surely cry.

It was tempting to do the haystacks, but I was afraid they would just end up looking like a big mess.

I decided to stick with the horn, and I quilted trumpets with visual sound waves blaring from them.  (I needed some way to fill the block and to move from one trumpet to the next; thus, the sound waves...not that you would be able to see them ordinarily.)

Rock-A-Bye Baby was fairly simple.  And was Rock-A-Bye Baby really a Mother Goose rhyme?  Apparently so, since I just looked it up.  In any case, if you'll recall, the baby was in the tree tops, and so that was a simple choice.

I made a tree trunk on the side of the block and a branch across the top.  Then I filled in the remainder of the block with leaves.

And last, but not least, Wee Willie Winkie.  Here's how his rhyme goes:

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,

Up stairs and down stairs in his night-gown,

Tapping at the window, crying at the lock,

Are the children in their bed, for it's past ten o'clock?

It actually goes on at some length.  You can read the whole rhyme right here.

I decided to stick with the upstairs, downstairs part of the rhyme, and simply filled the whole block with steps.

So now, all I need to do is quilt the sashings and the border.  I'm hoping to at least get started on that this afternoon.  I'd really like to get the binding sewn onto the quilt and finish it up before the weekend is over.

And with so many days of quilting, I thought you might need a kitty fix.  Smitty was my faithful quilting companion through this whole process.  That's catnip all over his bed there.  He's quite insistent about getting his daily catnip.

Gracie prefers the fireplace, and she really hates getting flashed in the eyes.  This isn't her most flattering pose, but there you go.

So whaddaya say?  For quilting all 25 blocks: