It all started back before Fall Market when Holly Holderman, owner of LakeHouse Dry Goods (not of my Daiso Japan fame - different Holly) got some awesome-ly cute Pooh Bears for her booth. Then the idea came to have her LakeHouse quilt designers make cute little bibs with letters on them spelling out "LakeHouse." It was super cute to say the least. Annie's bear is Sugar, second from the end. Isn't she adorable?
So, along with this task one of my favorite people, Cherri House of Cherry House Quilts, made a cute little quilt to go with her bear and that was the catalyst for Holly's "12 Bears of Christmas" Project. Back near the beginning of November Holly sent out the call to the designers of the bibs to make a cute little quilt to go with their bears and then these bears would be donated to a Charity - to be announced on Christmas Eve. When Annie told me about this I was really wishing that I could be the one to make the quilt. But at that point she had everything under control. Robin's Birthday/Thanksgiving hadn't come yet which also meant that it wasn't time to start packing to go to the Bernina Teachers Reunion being held in Chicago the weekend after Turkey Day. But as time went on, and she was having some other projects to finish up, the task of making the quilt was given to me. I was ecstatic! The day before she left for Chicago I started working on the quilt having absolutely no idea what it was I was going to do. Then the thought hit me: How cute would the LakeHouse fabrics look done crazy quilt style?! I had my idea.
So I started with this crazy quilt idea and it was coming along as best as it could with me never having made a crazy quilt before. I was just adding fabrics here and there with the constant hope that there wouldn't be a gaping hole in the middle of it when I was finished. Well, I got the top done and I even quilted it myself with a simple little stitch-in-the-ditch. I was so dang proud of this puppy and here's how it turned out.
I was having problems getting a clear picture to Holly where the green didn't show up as black and by that time Mom had come back from Chicago. It had also given me time to think about the completeness of my quilt. I was beginning to not like the finished product because it didn't seem very "LakeHouse" to me. So Mom got out the project she had taken with her to distract her while flying (she hates flying) and stuck two little hearts on the quilt. That softened it up right away. Then I decided to add ric rac to the hearts...
And then I took the binding off to put the ric rac on the border and added the ruffled edge. Now this screamed "LakeHouse" to me and I was even more thrilled than before.
And here is the finished product. Just charming, right? I think so, too.
Make sure to check out the rest of Holly's "12 Bears of Christmas" especially on Christmas Eve to find out where these precious little girlies are going!
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