a friend of mine is expecting a baby boy next month & i had lots of free time 2 weekends ago, so that could only mean one thing...{another} baby boy quilt. i got started late on a friday evening, so instead of rushing out to the fabric store (as i am prone to do when embarking on a new project), i decided to try to pull things from my stash. i suppose that's why we build up fabric stashes to begin with!
i used the michael miller "honk honk" print as my main fabric and added some dark brown, light blue, yellow and light green kona solids. i threw in a navy polka dot, a rainbow polka dot and some of the leftover heather bailey fabric i used in
my first quilt. i liked the mixture of pastels & dark colors. i cut out ninety-nine 4 1/2" squares and used my 11-rows-of-9-squares formula once again. then, i went to work laying out the design (another random one, just like
holden's quilt).
the next day i wasn't really fond of the rainbow dot fabric, so while i was out & about on my saturday errands, i ran into joann and picked up a half yard of different polka dot fabric to use instead, which was just enough for some squares and a strip for the backing.
sewing all the blocks and rows together went smoothly. i outlined the squares for the quilting & used the yellow solid fabric for the binding.
took it outside for a photo shoot, then packed it up & sent it off to soddy-daisy, tn!
You are a quilting machine!! bravo, looks great!
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