Thursday, October 17, 2013

Welcome to the Jungle Finish

I made one of these last year for a friend from work. She had painted the nursery with jungle animals. She requested these colors and jungle prints. I was pretty horrified by the jungle prints, but in the end I thought it was one of the cutest baby quilts I have ever made. I had lots of fabrics left over and decided to make another one since I forgot to take pictures of the first one and all that extra fabric needed to be put to use!
The blue animal prints (above the lion and below to the right side) were VIP fabric left overs that have been in my stash for years. They are perfect and I wish I had some more of them!
The animal embroideries were designed by Jo Ann Mullaly for her "Animal Crackers" design. I enlarged them and changed the middle to say "Welcome to the Jungle." I used a lime green perle cotton #8 for both the embroideries and the quilting.
I quilted it by hand just outlining the squares and rectangles.
The center square.
I used some of one of the VIP prints as a strip with the pieced back. I had to use some of the zebra print for the binding!
I do not have a particular baby in mind for this, I will just put it in my stash of already made baby quilts until I find the right baby for it! At least this time around, I have taken lots of pictures!

14 comments:

  1. This is just too cute! the primary colors with the animals are so fun! I'm sure that whoever receives it will love it!

    Thanks so much for linking up with Needle and Thread Thursday!

    :) Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation

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  2. I laughed reading your line: "I was pretty horrified by the jungle prints" because I think I understand you so well ;) The quilt turned out so cute and I might like the embridery part best!

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  3. Darling jungle quilt! Love the embroidered blocks!

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  4. What a fun baby quilt! It looks like a lot of work went into those hand embroidery blocks too :) thanks for linking up!

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  5. I love the zebra binding. Perfect! :D

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  6. Yay, what a fun baby quilt, Tanya! Thanks for linking up to TGIFF!, but to be eligible for the OctoberQuest 2 prizes, you need to include a link back to the TGIFF! party. I've unlinked your post, but if you do add the link, please link back up! :)

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  7. Congratulations on your finish! There will be a baby out there who will love this quilt, for sure!
    Esther
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  8. Such a cute quilt! Love the embroidery and bright colors.

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  9. Babies love bright colors..whichever baby gets this in the end will be happy as can be! :)

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  10. stopping by from val's linky party. love the animal embroideries in the quilt!

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  11. Oh I too love all the stitched animals!! Such a perfect quilt to rejuvenate...have you found a recipient for it yet??

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  12. I love embroidery in all it's forms so this speaks to me for sure, so colorful and sweet. Thanks for thr re-post at Val's Studio.

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  13. I really like the bright colors in this quilt. I hope it found a home. It's fun to think that the baby your first jungle quilt was intended for is no longer a baby--but a preschooler who probably loves it more each day. Thanks for re-posting this.

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  14. Hey friend! Love that this one is archived under our WILD theme this week!!! I agree with Janine Marie....love to think of many hugs this quilt has had.

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