Here's mine.
I'm not cheating - it is only one quilt but I made it double sided. I made it for my daughter and started it around 4 years ago when she was 13. She chose the animals she wanted from A Quilters Ark by Margaret Rolfe and I set to work piecing them using freezer paper templates. When the animals were finished I then took a while to work out how to place them and also in finding a fabric that would blend with them all. By now she is 17 and, although she says she still likes it, I am worried that it is too childish. In addition we had been collecting fabric for this quilt at all the quilt shows we have visited together and I hadn't used half of it - it must be the most expensive quilt in history! I decided to use some of the stash to create the backing, keeping the animal theme but in a more (I hope) sophisticated way. I was pleased with the second quilt but it did give me a headache when I came to quilt. In the end I free machine quilted leaves on the top using a varigated thread but put invisible thread on the bobbin so the quilting did not detract from the pattern on the back. I know patchwork and quilting is traditionally about using what you have and improvising but I would have made life easier if I had followed a pattern or at least created my own plan when I started. It was fun though and she still uses the animals on top - at least for now.
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