Mushroom Buttons Quilt

This quilt has been a challenge since day one and at times I wasn’t sure if I would finish it. The reason I picked this pattern is because my granddaughter who I was making this for is a fan of mushrooms and when I saw the pattern and the fabric itself, I knew this was the right quilt for her.

The other thing I liked about the pattern was the dresdens as I have been wanting to make a quilt using this design for quite sometime. In order to make the dresdens you need a template which was provided in the pattern. The bad part was I made the template from card stock and as I made my cuts I kept cutting more and more of my template, but didn’t realize it until I was sewing the dresdens after having cut out all 320 pieces. Yes there is 320 pieces to the dresdens and over 1000 pieces total. Lots and lots of cutting.

Here is a pic of the mushrooms and dresdens laid out.

Creating the mushroom pieces!

Rows and rows of mushrooms!

The mushrooms for the dresden centers.

Dresden centers ready to applique to pedals!

Dresden attached to the background square.

Another Dresden attached to the background square!

Completed quilt top ready for the longarm machine (Miss Moxie)

Below are a few pics while on the longarm being quilted.

When I’m gifting a quilt, I always wash them before giving them away. I do that to make sure nothing falls apart as the last thing I want is for some of the piecing to come apart after it gets washed. All of the following pics are after this process.

No quilt is complete without my “special” label.