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I was commissioned by my cousin to make a quilt for a wedding gift for her father, my uncle, as his bride is a fan of my fabrics and she wanted to make her feel specially welcomed into the family with a Craig quilt.
I truly enjoy making something for someone you know and love, so I put a lot of thought and time into it.

It was finished a few weeks ago but I had keep it a bit of a secret as the bride reads my blog! The wedding was yesterday and now Sharon is my Aunt, who is a very encouraging person, and I can finally share some pictures.

I was told Sharon squealed with delight when she received the quilt, promptly showed the 120 wedding guests and it was put on the bed straight away... o lala. It feels great to make someone happy with a hand made present!

The quilt is based on one of Kate Conklin's patterns and uses the slash and stack method, which is a really great way to quilt.

The quilt is finished off with a combination of machine and hand stitching. You can actually make this quilt with Kate Conklin's Off the Rails Quilt kit, available here. Though I have made my quilt one row longer in the end!

Being a wedding present I thought the Ginkgo Blossom give the quilt a really lovely free feel. Seriously don't know how I managed to get the Elk Landscape and the Tree Garden in indigo to center exactly in the middle of the back of the quilt but I am super pleased I did. It's nice to have two sides to a quilt don't you think?

I gift wrapped it featuring the paper I designed last week. I think all the time I took to design these papers was worth it. We also made some paper lanterns with them, which I will feature in another post. It is  certainly easy to print out paper.