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Snoopy approved

This is for Baby “Squirrel”, a little boy or girl we expect to arrive any day! Knowing how hard it was to find a squirrel invite for Squirrel’s baby shower, I was shocked that I was able to find Kate Spain’s Central Park fabric including this adorable SQUIRREL!

Squirrels!

I blogged earlier about my process and progress on the squirrel quilt at This week’s project. I should have taken a picture of when I was quilting, because there was one point where I was forcing nearly the entire bulk of the quilt through that SMALL area to the right of Flossy’s (the sewing machine’s) needle – it was ridiculous.

But the end result of fighting through the quilting is this zig-zag pattern, that you see better on the soft minky side of the quilt (I want a blanket made of this stuff! In the words of the little girl from Despicable Me, “it’s so fluffy!”)

Zig Zag

I’m so excited to send this off to Squirrel’s parents.

As I was enjoying dim sum on a Saturday morning, I was kinda surprised when the phrase “I think I want to learn how to quilt” came out of my mouth as I was talking to my friend Erin.  Sure, the idea had been rolling around in my mind for a bit, but I’d had ideas like this before.  The sewing machine sitting in my closet for 4 years?  Afraid to use it.  I didn’t even know I could sew a straight line, let alone put a whole quilt together.  I’d watched my mom sew, and spent plenty of time in fabric stores with her (mostly in search of the newest Snoopy fabric – she makes me an apron or pajamas out of all new releases!) but hadn’t quite picked up too much of how to actually make anything.

So what did Erin and I do?  The most logical thing ever – we headed into the depths of the LA fabric district in search of fabric to make a quilt.  Focus on the word “fabric” – I didn’t even know what kind of fabric I needed!  We ventured into one of Erin’s favorite stores for buying fabrics for making clothes, and the owner took pity on me.  She explained that I needed to start with a decent weight cotton.  We trudged on, finally found some fabrics that I didn’t think were heinous, and picked up 10 yards for $20.

Then I ventured to JoAnn’s, found a quilting book, cutting mat and rotary cutter and various other things.  Would I actually use this stuff?  Who knew?

And that’s how it all began, one sunny Saturday in October.