A Character Quilt for the Girls

I started work on this quilt before I did the Character Quilt for the boys.  I began it about 5 years before I actually finished it...it was my very first quilt and it was way too ambitious!

The design layout is similar to the boys' quilt.  Each row deals with a character quality, including the definition and Bible verses that illustrate that quality.

I used blue denium for the squares, then sashed it with white strips.  The backing is a mottled pink Baltic.  I used bright colors like pink and orange, blue, and purple, red and teal for the flowers and the words.

 

Though the picture above is turned sideways, you can see a close up of the embroidered flowers and the character quality Patience and its definition.

 

I spent a year working on the embroidered flowers, then put it aside because I felt overwhelmed.  It lay in a box for a number of years, though occasionally I'd pull it out and make a couple of flowered squares.  Then one day, I decided enough was enough--and determined it was finally time I finished this UFO (unfinished object).

 

Having never quilted before, and having no one in my real life to turn to for help, I struggled mightily with getting the sashing done and making the edges line up correctly.  It has a LOT of errors, but they are not very noticeable when the quilt is on the bed.

 

While working on this project, I also did three baby quilts because I badly needed the encouragement of finishing a quilt.  I don't have pictures of those, but they were very simple.  Just rows of 5 inch squares sewn together on the machine...

 

I have used these quilts to review character qualities we are struggling with and their Biblical basis with my girls (and boys).  This quilt serves as a vivid reminder of what we should be striving for on a daily basis.