More quilts

So I finished the Tinkerbell quilt from the kit that was sent to me by Quilts for Kids.  It took about 3.5 hours to do all the quilting and finishing so that means that from start to finish this project took less than 8 hours.  Not too bad for something this adorable:

Oh yeah.  I may have also made a second Mickey Mouse quilt to send along with the first.  The Mickey    quilt was from my own materials, not a kit.  It took three fat quarters of the light blue (background to the Mickeys) two of the dark blue for the border, and one each of the orange and white.  I bought two yards of the green which was used for the inner border, the backing, and the binding but I probably could have gotten away with only buying 1.75 yards.  

After getting all the pieces cut out, I used the embroidery function of my sewing machine to embroider the Mickeys.

My machine is a Brother and that company has a license with Disney, so the machine is preprogramed with many adorable Disney characters.  Believe it or not, the faces took much longer than the full body Mickeys because I had to change the thread color so many times for the shading.  Here is a close up of each of the three embroidery patterns I used.

Since the Tinkerbell one is decidedly girly, I wanted to put together a quilt with a more "boy" feel.  I love how it turned out!

Because I had to cut all the pieces with my rotary cutter myself and do the embroidery it took many more hours to make the Mickey quilt, but it was so fun.  I rarely have an opportunity to use the embroidery function of my machine.  It's not as cool to have Winnie the Pooh on your back pack when you're 25 as it is when you're 9.  Mostly if I use it, it's to put my initials on stuff I don't want stolen.  It was fun to bust out the Disney patterns.  

All of the fabric for the second quilt was purchased for the project, and it plus two crib-sized poly battings only cost me about $30.  Both quilts were shipped USPS priority mail for about $14.  Overall I think it was great fun to make the quilts.  I like to think that they will make some families happy. 

As a side note, the cats seriously hate the sewing machine.  They believe that the desk is theirs to lay on in the sun (its right under the window.)  Having a big machine that makes noise take up prime sunlight space seems to be nothing short of torture.  Every time I set it up, they glared at me and slunk off to the foor in front of the sliding glass door with a look that said "look at what you've reduced us to."  They were very happy to see "their" space returned to its natural prime-lounging state on Sunday.

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