Monday, December 17, 2012

Calvin and Henry's quilts... take 2

Wow, I have been sewing like made lately trying to finish up everything I have planned.  I know things will be cut, but that doesn't mean I won't try to get done all I can.  My sister, Cindy asked me a while back to make her two quilts for a friend.  She was very specific of what she wanted for colors and patterns.
I came across Riley Blake Fox Trails on sale on Craftsy and immediately snatched up a fat quarter pack.  Then I saw Classic Jurassic on sale at Fat Quarter Shop and thought wohoo, so I go that, too.  Two boys, two fabric bundles, well on my way to getting it done.  Or so I thought... Cindy only wanted parts of the bundles and she didn't want the primary colors of the Classic Jurassic so I edited my fabrics and added some Color Weave by PB textiles (I love the linen look of those fabrics).  On my way again... well... my first quilt top she did not like at all. (She said she wanted a quilt, a regular quilt... ugh!)  I have plans for fun quilting on this, but it will wait until I have time now.
Sorry for the cell phone pic.
So I went back to the drawing board and came up with these tops.  Of course that was after spending two days being cranky about her objection to the circle top I created.  I decided on a simple subway tile pattern.  
Calvin's Quilt
Calvin is 2 and he loves dinosaurs.  She got him a book and a stuffed dinosaur to go with the quilt.  I can see him yelling. "dinosaur... arrrrr!".  His quilt measures 42"x 48".

 Henry is 6 months and is just a little cutie.  He watches everything and takes it in like a little old man so the argyle and plaid match his personality.  His quilt measures 36" x 42".
Henry's Quilt



A strip down the back and some straight line quilting finish the quilts.  The boys share a room so I wanted them to match, but be special just for each of them.  

Cindy is very happy with Calvin and Henry's quilts take 2.  Thanks goodness because there would not have been a take 3.  Another thing off my 100 Day Hustle list.

I will be linking up this week to Linky Party Tuesday at Freemotion by the River and to Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.

1 comment:

  1. What a cute quilt, I can understand why she liked it! I think sometimes we as quilters want something "different" and people who don't just like the squares or in this case fun rectangles! Thanks for sharing.
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