Little girl quilt

Sometime in December, just as the holiday rush was starting to settle in for a final push, I got it into my head that I needed to make a quilt for my favorite little stink-eyed girl (I say that with love). I already had the perfect fabric, too - Heather Ross's Far, Far Away cotton gauze, Unicorns in every color!

Using four of the five colors, I cut the fabric into 6" squares and then arranged and sewed four squares into a large square. Then, I used the remaining color (the orange, in this case - I felt that each of the other prints had something orange and this would make it easy to tie it all together) as sashing.

I backed it with a teal corduroy I'd picked up at a crafty yard sale and then did a simple straight-line quilting.

The corduroy had a couple of worn spots - it was clean and totally usable, it just might have sat folded for too long - and you can see in the photo above that I had to do some minor patchwork. This is probably my favorite part of the quilt!

My friend Kate helped me to understand the intricacies of the continuous binding and before I knew it, I was done my first quilt. After a quick run through the delicate cycle, I ran down to give the quilt to its recipient. I think she liked it.
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