After giving a quilt to my cousin for his daughter's first birthday, I knew I would need to make quilts for this baby's future siblings and cousins, and by this time, my other cousin was expecting a baby boy, so I bought some fabric...and then we moved. Baby cousin #2 is now almost 18 months old, and I've finally finished his quilt!
I love the colors of this quilt. Although the design is very simple, it took forever to find a design that worked with these fabrics! It is called Thread Count by Amy Gibson. I used 5" squares and 5" x 15" strips.
I am not sure what I was looking for when I came across this fabric, which I last used in 2014 and 2016 to make treat bags for my nieces (when there were only three of them!), but I decided to use it to make some Halloween stockings for them this year. I used up all the ghost fabric making two, and then figured I might as well use up the rest of the owls and pumpkins, so I made five more for them to share with their friends. Hopefully Lucy still likes little stockings as much as she did back when I was inspired to make mermaid and unicorn stockings.
It has been a busy week of sewing! My nieces are reading The Hobbit for school this year, and the lesson plan says to dye some fabric and make a cape out of it. We are splitting these into two activities. I hemmed some white double gauze into blankets for them to dye, and then made a cape out of this shirting fabric I had originally purchased to use as backing for my plaid quilt. I found a simple pattern that I made even simpler. I did not line the cape, I just hemmed around the edges. Instead of button holes, I added buttons at the top with some elastic. This all happened on a tight deadline so everything would be ready for my brother in law to pick up while he was in town for work.
I've been collecting these 6" squares for years, and it was finally time to assemble them into a quilt. There are at least two each pattern, but no more than four. There is one I didn't plan to use that only has three. After assembling 80 blocks, I decided I needed another row, but that was as big as it could get. Before we moved, I found the two fabrics I used for the front. One of my quilter friends suggested I incorporate somewhere to "rest the
eye." I did buy some solid fabric, but I could not incorporate it into
the design.I am very pleased with how it turned out, despite how busy it is. It was hard to find fabric to coordinate with so many colors, and both the wood grain and navy crosshatch are perfect. I am pleased with how pleased I am with it, given how much I loved the very different color palette of my last quilt.
