This is the first time I have entered any of your contests. This is also the first time I have done a large quilt. This is a twin size quilt for one of my grandchildren. I have 6 of them and 5 of them are girls.
I have bought several designs from your site but when I first saw the Sally King shoes I fell in love with them. I used the Sally King Calendar Shoes 2014 part 1 & 2 to do this quilt. I have since bought the other sets and will be making another quilt since my little girls love shoes. The ice cream shoe has been tweaked a little since I took off the milk shake portion of it in my software. It was just a little much and I liked it better without the shake on the end of the shoe.
When I started sewing out the designs I put them on different colors of fabric looking at the thread colors I was going to use in the shoes. Some of the shoes are done in different colors then were selected by the designer and to me that is the creative part of sewing. When I was all done I had all these different colored blocks to try and put in one quilt. I then had to find a color for my sashings and border that went with all the designs. I will do the next quilt different since I learned what not to do with this one. But it was so much fun stitching them out I kind of got carried away.
They are all stitched on a good quality cotton fabric. The gal that quilted the quilt (Cheryl Ferris) looked at each design and quilted around each design pulling in the theme of each shoe. She did a fantastic job on it I thought.
So now for the pictures. Hope you enjoy this quilt. Betty
