Lily-bug Label

Lily's quilt is ready to be delivered to her this weekend. I finally made the label and sewed it on. I used photo-transfer fabric to print a picture of us from last Christmas, when Lily was six months old. I happened to be wearing a flannel shirt with flowers in just the right colors to match this quilt! Since I used yo-yo flowers on the front, I added a few on the label. I also found a ladybug button. Doesn't it look like Lily is reaching for it?

I added pictures of this quilt to a new album on my Webshots site, if you have not seen it in my earlier posts.

Lily's Quilt Top is Done!

Okay, here it is- Lily's quilt top, ready to go on the Gammill today! The flowers, letters, bugs, and even the bias tape are fused on and then applied with invisible thread and a tiny zigzag stitch. Can't wait to start quilting, then embellishing!

Originally, I was just going to spell out her nice, short, four-letter name. But at the beach, I noticed that her family all called her Lily-bug, even three-year-old brother Avery . That nickname works perfectly with all the dragonflies and the ladybug- not to mention the extra space at the bottom of the center block! Hope she does not mind when she gets older. When I was little my mother often called me Jeannie- Bean, which I did not like, and my dad called me Jeannie-Bird, which I loved. Lily has actually been called Bugs or Bugsy since she was born, because of her GREAT BIG EYES. Cute as a bug?