Finished for Friday – Doggie Style

Alright, so that title is going to get me some very weird Google hits. Ah well. Time to play along with Finished for Friday at Lit & Laundry!

Finished bright and early this morning is the set of dog-themed ragged square quilts and matching pillows for a custom Etsy order by my friend LauraC.  (And by bright and early, I mean my husband’s snoring and kids’ yodeling woke me up at about 6:15. I knew I wasn’t going to fall back asleep, so I made the pillowcases before I got the kids out of bed. Rebecca wasn’t real pleased toward the end, there, but we all survived.)

All that remains is to sew on some labels (more on those later) and run them through the washer and dryer for that soft, ragged-y goodness.  Why haven’t I washed them yet?  Ahem.  It might have something to do with the fact that my husband attempted (on his friend’s recommendation) to fix our underperforming dryer on Wednesday night.  Thursday afternoon, I went to Sears and purchased a new washer/dryer set.  That’s how well Wednesday night went.  Did I mention he started his “fix” while there was already a wet load of clothes in the washer? Awesome.

Anyways, these super-cute quilts and pillows are for two little boys about to turn three years old, and their favorite puppy stuffed animals. One blue, one red.  The twin thing, as I well know, can be tricky.  Sometimes you want them each to have something, and you want it to be roughly the same, and yet individual.  So the prints are different but related, pattern is the same, one red, one blue.  (And the red is not nearly so shocking a color in person, not sure what was up with the color and my camera this morning.) I hope they enjoy them!  Happy almost birthday, boys!