Inspiration can come from anywhere

My daughter has a sweatshirt that she bought at college that I love.  It is a reverse applique of the college letters.  I had been wanting to try my hand at reverse applique and finally did to make this rag quilt.

I layered a piece of flannel behind fleece, cut the letters out with my Cricut and pinned them in place and then stitched around the letter.  The tricky part was cutting the layer of fleece without going through the flannel too.  I used the cutouts to put the name on the back of the rag quilt as well.

I know that this rag quilt will be a great one to snuggle under.  It has two layers of fleece which made it a bit of a challenge to sew through all of those layers.

I also made another fleece blanket that I used a quilt block as inspiration.  I am doing the block of the month over at www.craftsy.com and used the chunky chevron block as inspiration to make this fun throw for a boy.

Thanks to my dear husband for help in photographing these!!