Dog Bandana Quilt For Mom

 It has been a long time since I've made a quilt. I burned out for a while but recently found myself wishing for some time at the sewing machine. My mom's dog visits the groomer regularly and each time she comes out with a cute bandana. Mom had been saving them for years and asks me to make a quilt for her. I've been holding on to them for a while and I'm sure Mom has either forgotten about them or at least thinks I'll never sew again. This was the perfect project to refresh my quilting and sewing spirit.

Here are all the bandanas. It's a mismatched bunch for sure.

Here's a little closer look. I tried to sort them dark to light to begin thinking about what I wanted to do.

This was going to have to be a super scrappy pattern to make this work. I recalled something that Bonnie Hunter often says... if the fabric is ugly, just cut it smaller! So, that's what I did. I went with a pattern from Bonnie's Free Patterns! page. It is Oopsie Daisie and was so much fun to make.

The first picture shows some of the blocks and the second picture shows all of them with my foot to help with the size. It's not a big quilt but very bright and fun. All of those bandanas get along great in this quilt.

I was out of basting spray so I pin basted the layers together and machine quilted a simple cross hatch pattern. I was happy to find such a cute paw print pattern for the back.

I had to make a fun label for the back with Kaylee's name on it.

Our cat, Bruce, approves, although he might not if he knew there was a dog involved!

Here's the finished front and back and a small photo dump below. I'm saving this to give to her as a Christmas gift. She will definitely be surprised!