My Kid’s Quilt Part 2

In the last post I did about my daughter’s quilt, I promised to post pictures as soon as I got them onto my computer and resized.  Well, I tried to do that the other night and my computer had other plans and totally crashed on me.  But I did finally get the pics resized and all, so here is the latest update my kid’s quilt.

I started out with 7 different colors.  My daughter wanted her quilt to be in all blues, but I had to work with what I had.  A little black and white here and there really set the look.  These were my original color ideas.  I used mostly fabrics I already had on hand, but let my daughter choose one fabric from Hobby Lobby.  That would be the light blue one with stars on the left.

Once I got things figured out exactly how I wanted the, I put all the pieces together.  I started with just one to make sure I was happy with the arrangement, but was thrilled to see it done.

Once I got to this point, I went ahead and made up several more and made a block of 4 squares. They looked awesome together. 

The problem was that I didn’t have enough of all these materials to make an entire quilt that would cover her bed.  So I had to improvise and decided to make an entirely different set of blocks–also in blue, black, and white—to off set with the ones I’d just made.  I had plenty of the black and white at home, but decided to go with 5 other colors of blue.   So, off we went to Wal-Mart (Who by the way has been keeping their remnant rack quite full).  I picked up a couple of remnants I liked and a couple fat quarters that looked cool.  Then I let my kid pick out another fabric that she wanted in this block.  I figured that it’s her quilt, she might as well have some say as to what it looks like.

I got the dark blue with yellow flowers and the dark blue with light blue snowflakes at Wal-Mart, and had the white, black, and the dark and light blues used in the middle.  At the bottom of the picture, you’ll see my kid picked out the fabric with peace signs all over it.  Yes, peace signs.  It’s her favorite thing, which is okay with me since a couple years ago she was into skulls.  LOL

I was happy to see that the block looked pretty good all together, but quickly realized that I’d sewn my pieces together backwards from what I’d done with the first blocks.  Oh Crap!!!  Then my little muse slapped me up long side the head and told me that “it’s a special quilt and this was meant to be.  Now shut the hell up and get back to work”.  My muse is kinda bossy.

But when I put 4 of them together, I was almost heart broken.  Honestly, I wasn’t happy with it.  I thought it looked horrible.  But, it’s not my quilt and I wanted my daughter’s opinion.  She thought it was cool how the “black pieces make it look like I put an “S” in the block for Senter”.   Yeah, okay.  That’s what I meant to do, really.  hehehe.  As long as she’s happy, I’m happy.

That’s when I went ahead and got a bunch more blocks made and put together.  I’m still not done, but I have managed to get 10 full blocks done.  I have 2 more to go (one of each color scheme), and I’m going to add half blocks to each side.  I hope it will look as cool in real life as it does in my head.  LOL  Here’s what we have so far.  I’m happy!!

It’s not sewn together completely yet.  I want to finish up the last 2 full blocks and the 8 side blocks before I put the whole thing together.  Baby girl says she’s thrilled and can’t wait until it’s done.  Her birthday is on the 1st of October, and I plan to have this done by then.  Wish me luck and I’ll keep everyone up to date on my progress.

Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tags: Handmade Items, Homemade Gifts, Quilt Blocks, Quilts

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