I made baby Trey's quilt! Dave bought me a new sewing machine for our anniversary and it works so well! I finished it and it is soooo cute! I got the idea for it and most of the instructions off of littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com

They have a lot of quilting tutorials. I used the applique tutorial for the elephants and the free motion quilting tutorial to quilt it. It turned out really well, there are rookie mistakes if you know what you are looking for but I am happy with it. It is really only my second quilt and the last one was a rag quilt so this was very different. On their blog they have an elephant quilt that has an elephant template, I printed it out and made it bigger then traced it onto freezer paper (great tip from their website) and cut that out. I put heatnbond light (learned the hard way to use lite!) on the wrong side of my fabric, then I ironed the freezer paper onto the right side of my fabric and cut around the elephants. I tried using heat n bond ultra because I had it on hand, it is not sewable! Don't use it! Ok, then I used a zig zag stitch to finish the edges of my appliques. After that you stack your quilt layers and pin them then trim them to match and you can quilt them. I did practice for quite awhile before I actually quilted on my quilt. I made practice sandwiches. Then I used premade quilt binding to finish it. Next time I would love to make my own binding out of a really cute fabric but for this time I needed easier. So there you go.