A baby quilt for our newest grandson! Okay, he's almost nine months old now, but I have to say this quilt was one of those projects that just don't go smoothly. I made a stack of strip-pieced nine patch blocks and a stack of stack-and-whack crazy patch blocks and pieced them together in a checkerboard pattern. What a disaster! It was a train wreck. I had to put it away. Later I picked it all apart and appliqued stars on the nine-patches and confined them with a border. Better. I cut the crazy patch blocks in two for a second border. Even better. I started quilting, but it still wasn't right, and I let it incubate some more. I think I was hoping I wouldn't have to add the outside border, as it was already layered and stitched, but I finally gave up and added batting and borders to the front and the back.It seems to calm the whole thing, and the red binding makes a frame. Hooray, it's finished! I'm still afraid it will keep him awake all night.
It's super-bright, but lots of fun. He'll love it. I like the stack & whack border - nice idea!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE it. It's so bright and fun. And maybe, if you're lucky, it will just pep him up in the morning instead of keeping him up at night. It's beautiful!
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