When my friend, Kristy, first told me she wanted a quilt for Shannon, she said she'd like one of the fox designs. She told me Shannon was having a girl and I knew I had to do something more delicate for her. It took me a couple days of brain storming until one day, while walking my dog, it popped into my head. A fawn is delicate and graceful and perfect for a baby girl. So I did a quick sketch and this is how the fawn began...
This quilt was a lot of fun to do and left me with a fair list of areas I need to strengthen. The fawn was really easy to construct, however, the honeycomb shapes in the background posed a lot more problems than I thought they would. When I did the Fox quilt my mom had mentioned that she was surprised how well I did the diamonds because they're considered to be a more difficult shape to quilt. I kind of understood what she was saying until I did this quilt and really discovered how difficult a shape can be when I sewed, ripped, and sewed again until I finally got the corners to line up perfectly.
The two other areas I need more practice are the borders and the binding. First of all, I didn't realize the boarders are there to manipulate the edges into being the exact same size, thanks to my mom, I'm now full of the knowledge on how to do that properly. Secondly the binding. Ugh! the binding! I'm not so sure I like binding and will spend my next project trying to figure out a modern quilt solution on how to end binding. I also might set up some practice quilts to practice the binding and conquer that problem. We'll see. This will take some thinking...
