My cousin had a boy in October and I'm finally getting around to making a quilt for him.
Though a bit dark, I do really like these two fabrics together.
I made it two sided. In my 'no buy 2010' I made an exception for this fabric. I had to Frankenstein the batting together - I have been using all the bits and scraps and was down to next to nothing.
The pillowcase and quilt were part of a barter: she took amazing pictures of my kids, and I threw together a quick quilt and pillowcase.
She had about 1/2 of the center done. I decided on the borders and the backing. Again, as with my last quilt for my sister, I only bought the backing and the binding.
Overall, it's another project I'm pleased with.
Doesn't she do lovely work? She's much better with the fussy bits than I am.
I planned the placement, put it together and quilted it.
The only fabric I bought for this was the pink backing and green binding. Otherwise all the fabric was in the bag. I tried doing a two sided quilt - though the back side is pretty simple, I really like the effect of being able to turn it over.
Also, something else I discovered:
Rather than quilting with the top of the quilt up, I quilted with the bottom. I was using cream thread that nearly disappeared into the top - since I was just stippling it, I found myself running it together more than I wanted. By flipping it over, I could see what I was doing.
