A few months back I was asked by Sam to make a quilt for his beloved otter. How can I deny him? So despite the fact that I have not yet made Sam his own quilt, I went to work on the quilt for Ottie, checking out free quilt block patterns to get a general idea of what I wanted to make for Ottie (and of course started a quilt for Max’s sidekick Alaska at the same time). This weekend while catching up on some much-needed R&R I sat on a big front porch overlooking the Licking River and finished up a quilt for an otter. It’s a very simple pattern…just four-inch squares sewn together, and then I tied the quilt at the corners of the squares and used store-bought binding (I need to learn how to make my own binding, I’ve heard it is simple!). This project should have been a weekend project, not a three-month project, but that is how things go around here…slow and steady.
A blanket for a stuffed animal or doll is quite easy to put together. I actually made this by hand, although it would have been much faster on the sewing machine. Have you made anything for your child’s doll or stuffed animals? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below!
