Pony Tales

This barnyard quilt was intended for a little boy from the beginning. The mom was very into horses, so my aunt wanted a quilt that had a horse theme. I found the pattern, Pony Tales on the internet and suggested that she look at it. She loved it, so I got to work.

I picked fabrics that were a bit more horse-like  than the ones in the pattern. I actually took the time to look up horse coloring so that I wasn't making a horse of a color that didn't exist.

I combined machine and hand embroidery in the applique. I did the machine embroidery around the outside edges and did the smile, nose and eye by hand.

The original pattern was a bit on the small size for a crib quilt, so I added black sashing between the blocks to bring it up to a more standard size.

I used the same cream fabric for all three horses and used it again for the star in the corner. I was looking for bandanna fabric for both the blue and red, but only found it in red. Rather than just doing a denim-colored fabric, I found a light-weight denim  that was a nice shade of blue.

For the plaid, I used a homespun cotton.

Overall, it turned out super cute and durable for the next little rodeo star.