I-Spy Baby Quilt

My sister recently asked me if I could make a neutral baby quilt for a friend of hers.  They were not finding out the gender of the baby, so I decided to make an I-Spy quilt.  I pulled out my crazy stash of I-Spy blocks that I have collected from my stash and from swaps with Polly from Pieces by Polly.

I sorted a handful of squares by color and pulled out 18 blocks from each stack to make 2 nine patch blocks of each color.

After I pieced the top, I quilted some wavy lines along a number of the seams.  I like to add a lot of quilting to baby quilts to make sure they hod up to lots of washings.  I also machine bound the quilt.

I backed it in a fun tree print with a couple teal strips running through.  The binding is a small yellow chevron, adding a pretty stripe along the edge.

I love the colorful quilt among the fall leaves.

I-Spy Baby quilt
31.5" x 42"
Assorted fabrics
100% Pellon cotton batting

Go home relax, ice, rest, and... sew

So I have to say that I have a great physical therapist that knows me very well.  This has been a hard week on my knee.  It was so sore Monday and they I had to have another injection on Tuesday.  So by the time I had physical therapy on Wednesday I was in so much more pain from the injection (why does it hurt so much after?!?).  Well after my wonderful 4 hours there he said to me, "go home, ice, relax, and maybe sew something".  Well you don't have to tell me that twice.  I decided that I was feeling too bah to sew an of the dozens of projects I am working on so while sitting and slicing fabrics for my nephews' I-spy quilt I decided to cut up the smaller scraps to make an I-spy place-mat for my physical therapist's little guy.  I mean, it was his idea to rest, relax, and sew.

So this is that I came up with.  It has all kinds of fun things on it... giraffes, tractors, trains... I love how it turned out.  

I did straight line quilting just outside the seem lines.  I like the look of the grid on it.  I just need to bind it and then it is all done to bring to physical therapy tomorrow.  The little guy is 20 months old so this will be a fun game for him to play.  

I just have to decide on what color to do the binding.  I am off to go relax with some more ice on my knee.  Anyone want to trade a sightly used and abused knee for one with a little less wear and tear?  

Update:  All done :)