In October of 2012 a good friend of mine was getting married. For their wedding gift I offered to make them a guest book quilt. They graciously accepted and so I began to work on it.
They were getting married outside on a Texas ranch and had a rustic theme to it so I went with a country themed fabric for the squares. I made all the squares with the themed fabric and the off white centers for the signatures and then ironed wax paper on to the backs to provide stability for the quests to write on them.
We set up a cute antique table with a bucket for blank squares and a bucket for signed squares, provided fabric pens and instructions for the guests to sign each square. I made the frame that was used for the instructions by gluing pieces of the scraps to a wooden frame and used a few scrapbook stickers as well.
Piecing it all together took some time and effort. I wanted it to have a scrappy feel to it without having lumps of the same color close to each other. So there was a lot of square moving and adjusting. At first I wasn't going to do an inner border but in the end I am soooo glad I did and the yellow really compliments the entire quilt. The border is just pieces of the same fabric I used on the blocks. For the backing I used a Texas print from Michael Miller fabrics to commemorate their wedding in Texas.
On the couples one year anniversary, which also happened to be the shower for their first baby together, I gave them their quilt. They were very happy to see it and read what all the guests wrote. It was so much fun to make this for them.
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