Princess Quilt Ready for a Princess

Four charm packs with a princess design.  That’s how many charm packs I bought ‘on sale’ so we could make a princess quilt.  We finished the first one, and I don’t know when we’ll start on a second!  We have other things on our list . . . ~smile~

So we chose to machine quilt this in a variety of ways.  First, Sue used the embroidery sewing machine and put pink hearts in each white square.  The background has more purple in it, so we used a purple bobbin thread and we carried that theme throughout the quilting. 

Princess Party

I then took it to the Elna and sewed some random-sized zig-zags in each of the patterned squares.  Finally, with a nod to the backing fabric I quilted a diamond shape in the pink border.  I used the new laser light technique that I mentioned in an earlier post.  It worked really nicely and it was very easy too with very little marking.

The binding matched the wide pink border.  I machine sewed it to the front and then hand tacked it down on the back.  We used a new-to-us Fairfield Toasty Cotton batting.  It was a little thinner than our normal Warm ‘n Natural, but I think it will be fine.  I believe I will be listing this eventually in our Etsy shop.  We don’t have a little girl that needs a quilt – at least not that we know of. ~smile~  The quilt finished at 39.5″ x 48″ of all cottony goodness.

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