My Daughters College Quilt

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04-03-2010, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Leota

After looking at all the borders, I think the brown border make the dogs pop more...But your daughter has the final say

What she says!

04-03-2010, 08:38 AM

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rootyr

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Beautiful. Blue gets my vote!

04-03-2010, 09:08 AM

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bstanbro

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Love that. What a precious face on your dog.

04-03-2010, 10:29 AM

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tooMuchFabric

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Please Be Sure To Label The Quilt!! Quilts at camp or school tend to grow little legs and wander off. It would be heartbreaking after so much beautiful work to have the quilt disappear.
Maybe even mark the front of it somehow.
Put her name on it or something.

04-03-2010, 03:10 PM

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cute quilt...will be greatly loved... :D :thumbup:

04-03-2010, 04:10 PM

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IMHO, I like the green-brown, enough to make a difference, but yet brings in the browns from the puppies. Its a more soothing combo for me.

04-03-2010, 06:34 PM

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What a great quilt for your daughter to take to college. My daughter is in her third year and she would have loved to have taken the family pets with her like that. She is green with envy. Your Honey is absolutely precious. What a gem.

04-03-2010, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dglvr

I love it. Oh my goodness. You are sooo creative. I have that book so I guess I better get mine out now. Did you draw the upper right side picture of your dog or is that a picture of your dog. If you drew that I'll let ya draw a picture of my dobies anytime. Great job. Thanks for sharing.
Oh I like the brown border best. Then the blue second best.
Would love to see it again when its completed. I'm jelious. :thumbup:

I didn’t draw the dog freehand. First I cropped a picture of Honey’s face…. blew up the picture of her face….. printed it out on a 8 by 11 sheet of paper…. Layered a sheet of velum on top…. Brought it to the light box and traced an outline according to the different shades of color….. I then went into my Photoshop and printed another photo just showing 5 or 6 shades of color (not sure which filter that is). The whole process was lots of fun! Saw something like it on one of the sewing shows (Sewing with Nancy ????) a long time ago.

I’d do your Dobies any time!

04-03-2010, 07:39 PM

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Annz

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I like the brown border. Great unique quilt

04-03-2010, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by T-Bones mom

What makes this quilt special for me is the Chocolate Lab in the center block. She was with us for 10 and half years….She was my daughters first dog….We were heartbroken when she passed away almost a year ago…..It is comforting for me to know “Chocolate” will be watching over my daughter when she is away.