My father-in-law got married, not this weekend that just ended, but the one before. Robert and I wanted to make a nice gift for him and his now-wife because we think they are really awesome and wanted to commemorate their marriage (and what can you buy for parents - they are a firmly established household and could buy anything they needed or really wanted). We decided on a cute mini-quilt (my part of it) with a lovely kolrose-d stand (Robert's part) similar to the one Robert made for our wedding cake topper.
I followed
this tutorial at Two More Seconds for the heart applique, but made it a lot smaller. Most of the fabrics are from a warm scrap pack I got on sale from
Hawthorne Threads a few months ago, and a few are leftovers from other projects. I embroidered their wedding date by hand before I sandwiched and (minimally) quilted it.
Here's the stand. There are two narrow vertical sleeves on the back of the quilt to put over dowels that go in the holes of the stand. The T and A are in blackboard bold (a mathy font - both my father-in-law and his wife are math professors), which fit perfectly because the theme of the wedding was "Nerd love"!
I didn't finish the binding on the quilt until the morning of the wedding and in my excitement to get it wrapped up I forgot to take pictures of the finished product ... maybe I'll get some the next time we visit ... or maybe I'll forget ...
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