My cousin Eowyn just had a beautiful baby boy, and I rushed to make him a quilt in the midst of a crazy first fall semester for me here at UVa. I'm so happy with the result! It's a simple square quilt made of squares, and quilted heavily with multi-colored thread. It's a similar palette to my last couple of blue/green boy quilts.
Scrap quilts can be really awful if you aren't extremely careful about fabric placement.I like focusing on value--deciding with great care how to arrange dark and light fabrics. Here, I was challenged pretty strongly by the mix of fabrics I had available, but I'm thrilled with the results. Here's the final product:
When I finished the piecing, I was a bit worried because the white inner borders looked really stark:
Here's what helped turn the pieced top into a quilt that works: the awesome striped binding fabric, which I was makes the white a more integral part of the quilt, and the colored quilting:
The back was a blast to put together. It's one of my favorite backs:
And finally, a crappy process picture, when I was trying to decide on the inner border color. The post-quilting photos are taken with my new iPhone. What a difference!
