Sunday, October 14, 2012

A Quilt for Boy Two

  
A few months ago my boy number two learnt how to climb out of his cot.  This heralded 'The Big Upgrade'.  Boy number one would move from the bottom bunk to the vacant top bunk and boy number two would move from the cot to the bottom bunk.  Sorted.  All except that a cot quilt is like a postage stamp on a single duvet.  Boy two needed a new quilt to match the new bed.


I made boy number one a quilt when he upgraded from his cotbed to the bottom bunk. If you are interested, you can read about it here.  I wanted a quilt that would be different, but still 'go' with this one.  And, since I have had a bit of a thing recently with half square triangles (I've not even blogged my linen quilt yet, but Florence spoke about it here), I thought I would go with a chevron quilt. 


Mil's quilt was blue, so that had to feature, and some of the same fabrics too.  The greys were inspired by my recent grey buying spree, and well, grey + blue = yellow, does it not?  For fabric inspiration see the Gotham Bundle for greys, the Bitter Sweet Bundle, or the Caipiroska Bundle for blues, and the Butterfinger Bundle covers the yellow. 


The backing echos the front a bit with the yellow and blue which are Corn and Turquoise Klona.  My husband likened it to the Swedish flag, which in turn reminds me of my very good friend Sarah, unimaginatively nicknamed 'Swedish' by our gang, who has returned to her native country, and who I miss greatly (boo hoo, come back Sarah!).

Quilted in my current favourite method of circles... circles have been a revelation to me. They look lovely and neat, yet do not have that horrible habit of showing up your non-matching points and seams.  Straight quilting always seems to glare angrily at my haphazard piecing!


Oh, and bound in Simpatico Golden Straws because stripes on binding are ace.

Amen.


10 comments:

  1. Such a fun quilt! A perfect blend of colours and a cool quilting style =D

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  2. It's a beauty, Alice! I love the circles quilting, perfect.

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  3. This lovely boy quilt is a total joy! And you are so right about stripey binding. Love the circles quilting - it looks much harder than straight lines but as you say is more forgiving. Perfect - lucky boy x

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  4. So lovely and cheery! Love the back too...

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  5. What a lovely quilt! The piecing looks perfect and I love that circular quilting

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  6. That's absolutely gorgeous, and the colours look beautiful together. He's going to love it!

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  7. That's just lovely Alice, lucky boy! I'd like that for myself. I particularly love that little bit of yellow..

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  8. That is such a lovely quilt - I am totally addicted to half square triangles! Good colour cobminations, it all works really well. I need to work on my quilting, I still have real issues with my backing fabric getting caught up in places and not quilting completely flat. Oh for wooden floors to spread it out on!

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  9. Love it... one question - how do you get the back so straight!!! Fabulous quilt, very inspiring

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