Wow, that's your first?  Great job!

I love the colors you used!

That's such a gorgeous quilt, I know that your father will really love it and cherish it always.

Thoughtful gift, and those are the ones that mean the most.

And - your quilting job isn't crappy!!

what a gorgeous pattern.  I love the way they look hon, great work!

I actually just did a few Google searches a few days ago and came up with some awesome sites with free patterns.

These are the ones I've found, and I've tried about 6 of them, and they seem to be pretty good especially since I'm new at the whole making teddy bears.

Hope they help:

http://www.bluebonnetvillage.com/yankee.htm
http://www.kuninfelt.com/projectsheets/rainplush/blossom_bear.htm <- I'm in the process of making this one now, and it's really simple, and I'm just using regular scrap fabric, not felt.



http://dollmakersjourney.com/freepatterns.html <- This one has dolls, bunnies and others.. I forget if it's got bears.
http://www.bearycheap.com/free%20patterns/patterns.html
http://www.nonidolls.com/bearpat.html
http://www.bearzbyilze.com.au/freepattern.html

Just browsing the net one night and I found a bunch of neat patterns for teddy bears I wanted to try.. and since I have a ton of scrap fabric I figured I'd give it a go:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/simplyelemental/teddybear.jpg

Not too bad for my first.. any and all constructive criticism would be good.  I enjoyed making it, so if anyone's got tips or tricks on how to make them better I'd love it!

oh my goodness, what a gorgeous quilt!! I love it, what a lucky couple.

Gorgeous job!

I just finished this quilt, it's not my largest one, but I think it's going to be one of my favourites.  I'd raided my stash of fabrics and came up with this:

This is it on a twin bed:


And this is showing off the back more on the couch in the den:


I'll probably make similar ones in other colours, I have a bunch of tropical fabrics and patterns left!

Well.. I'm just going to show off a quilt I made for my puppy with his bandanas he gets from going to the groomer.  I had a ton of extra fabric so I made the border from that.

Linked out because the files are large
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/simplyelemental/IMG_0263.jpg

and



Ok.. hope this is a good start it's my first post here ever!

Selise