The Guardian (updated!)

Dear Readers,

I just finished a quilt that I named "The Guardians" as a baby quilt for my nephew's soon to be born baby girl.  I made it using the pattern Lloyd and Lola by Elizabeth Hartman.  You can click here to check out that or other patterns by Elizabeth Hartman.  

My nephew and his wife hiked Machu Picchu a couple of years ago, so when I saw the pattern, I thought this would be perfect for their little one.  I sent a picture of the pattern to my daughter and she thought they would like it too.  

The pattern had rather daunting cutting chart so I spent a Saturday cutting out the pieces for the llama and the background.  I had already cut the pom poms and the small squares used to snowball the corners of those pom poms.   

First I made the pom pom rows, and the blankets.

then I made the llama bodies, being careful to do the mirror images right...I was saving the faces for last as 
there were lots of little pieces and I wanted to do it in a morning time when I was fresh.

Finally I made the faces!!  They came out good, just had one part that had to spend time with Jack the Ripper.  So I had a flimsy.  

I put it on the long arm and quilted all but the white areas and the eyes and the blankets.  I wanted to make the background look like a mountain range and the brown parts look like fur.  I always like a pattern that is organic in nature.  

The white thread kept breaking so I put it on my sit down machine and did the blankets and the white areas.  

Sew on and if I don't get on again before Christmas...Merry Christmas.

Terry

The mother to be with the quilt -