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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Family Game Quilt

  This is the quilt I made for my husband for our second anniversary.  The traditional gift for the second anniversary is cotton so I wanted to sew something.  I wanted to make a quilt large enough for all three of us to spread out on during a relaxing picnic, and also incorporate some family fun when the food is done!  Here is what I came up with: 

 The quilt has a checker/chess board, backgammon (we don't know how to play, ...yet), tic tac toe, and a bean bag toss.  The next pictures are the words on the border.  Sums up exactly what we will do on this quilt:




and enjoy being a 
 
the hardest part: 
my favorite part: 

My boys enjoying lunch. Smile.