Yes, I am "Nuts About" ...

 ... these little toesies  ...

... this beautiful, adorable grand-darling! 

Isn't she cute in her stylish new glasses?

Grammy is completely "nuts about"  Everly!

Everly and I are joining all our sweet, salty and nutty friends in the

Nuts About Blog Hop @ Seams To Be Sew

How best to tell Little Miss Everly that Grammy is nuts about her?

With a soft and snuggly new quilt, of course!

The fabric that says "soft and snuggly" the most to me is flannel and
the pattern that says "cuddle" to me is "rag quilt."

So I made a snuggly, soft, cuddly, huggable rag quilt!

I have not made a flannel rag quilt in years and I am not sure why.
Rag quilts are sew easy to make.
Sometimes simple and easy is best.
No need for a fancy pattern and expensive new release fabrics.
Well-worn and loved is what matters most in a quilty hug.

So I drew up a basic squares quilt layout on my EQ.

I decided to applique in a few rag edged hearts to say "I love you"  to my grand-darling.

I found some soft flannels in my stash.



Then I remembered that Everly is "nuts about" Minnie Mouse so I dashed out
with coupon in hand to my nearby JoAnn fabrics and found her some Minnie fabric.
"Minnie" is one of her favorite words and she says it so cute.
She has three "Minnies" and all were gifts,
one beanie sized stuffed one from Grampy,
one Little People one from Grammy and
one from a hostess in a local Chinese food restaurant who thought she was so darling.
Minnie goes everywhere with Everly
so Minnie needed to be on this quilt.

Here is my finished quilt.

Here is a closeup of the ruffly heart.

I added a folded strip of flannel around the edge of the front of the quilt as a "binding" and to add some fluff to the outside edge.

Here is the back of the quilt.

Here is Everly and her new quilt ...

She loves  getting her fingers and toes into the ruffly raggedy edges.

A quilt good for rolling and tumbling.

I think my grand puppy is saying,
"I need a quilt, Grammy."

For now these two buddies are sharing.

Bear and I hope Everly and Sierra enjoy her quilt as much
as we enjoyed making it and showing it to you.

Click HERE for a Free Tutorial
for my
Raggedy Heart Quilt

Be sure to go nuts with all the nutty quilters today 

February 8, 2016

Batts In The Attic
Life in the Scrapatch (you are here!)
Quilting Affection
Ravelly's
In The Boon Docks

Time for a Great Giveaway from our blog hop host the ...

Fat Quarter Shop!

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and


Here is a wonderful free gift from ...

Frangipani Quilt Block

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Enjoy!


Thanks to Marian @ Seams To Be Sew

for gathering the quilty nuts and hosting this hop!

Where's Everly?

Time to say "Bye-Bye" to our visitors ...

There's Everly!

Thank you for playing peekaboo with us today!

Enjoy the rest of the hop!

"Bye-Bye!"

:-)