Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Sewing!!

Last week (Monday the 5th through Saturday the 10th) my sister Grace and I went up to my Grampa and Gramma Klahn's house. A couple years ago Ike and Emmy had gone up by them, and then a few months later Zack and Aleks had. So finally Grace and I got to go!

While up there, my Gramma and I made a quilt and matching curtains to go in my room (which I painted last fall). Here are some pictures:

After buying the material, the first thing to do is cut the squares!

Then, we laid out the squares to figure out what looked best.

Then comes my favorite part - sewing!! We had two sewing machines, so it went REALLY fast!!

Here is the front half of the quilt.


On the quilting board, ready to tie!(this picture was taken from the loft)

Thank you so much Gramma, for helping me make the quilt and for the material (quilt, curtains and skirt). Maybe we can do it again sometime!!

The quilt turned out sooo nice!! I absolutely love it. It's so cozy and fluffy!! Hopefully soon I'll take some pictures of the quilt and curtains in my room and put them up here.

For more pictures of the trip, visit our family blog.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, yay, I get to leave the first comment! :-)
The quilt looks great! My mom, sister, and I are workin on a queen double Irish chain quilt. It's coming along pretty well! There's a very short post about it on our family blog (www.sarensenfamily.blogspot.com)
Your hair is so long and pretty!!

Iron sharpeneth iron......Prov. 27:17 said...

Rats....I'm not the first commenter!! :( :)
Your quilt looks terrific Aliisa!!! I like the colors a lot!! :0 Wish I had been there to help you with it!!
Missin' You!
~Lizzie

Anonymous said...

Your quilt looks so awesome! You did a good job! :)

Iron sharpeneth iron......Prov. 27:17 said...

Oops, Ali!! You need to fix your link in this post to your family blog.....it doesn't go through!!
Love Ya!!
~Elizabeth