Quilt from 13 Years Ago!

I started making this one about thirteen years ago! The top was done but I did not quilt it. It sat in a box until I took it out a couple of months ago. My daughter bought an aqua blue colored quilt for her bed. Since she has two twins in her room I decided to finish this one for the other bed. The light blues in both quilts are the same color. To make the quilt top a bit bigger I had to buy some more cloth for the borders. I could not get the exact colors but these are close enough. I used dark blue pearl cotton thread for quilting.

That is Biya on the quilt inspecting it. She lived under it while I was quilting. Wonder what she is thinking. Wonder if she thinks in English or Konkani. I talk to her in Konkani which is my mother tongue. Hope she has picked up enough by now.

Amma's Kindle

My amma is an avid reader and loves to read every minute of her spare time. She has lots of other passions like knitting and crocheting but reading is her favorite. I got her a Kindle late last year and started making a case for it. My local quilt store had a 5" charm pack of beautiful batiks. I enjoy those very much and wanted to share them with my mom.

I cut the 5" squares up into little one and a half inch squares and sewed them with one inch wide border of white fabric. I tried not to put same colored fabric pieces next to each other by picking those little squares from a brown paper bag. Inside lining is a cat fabric and I love that fabric too. It is very colorful and I knew my mom will love it. The pattern is mine and I kind of winged it :-). It has been a long time since I quilted and this was a great project to work on.