Saturday, May 19, 2012

Bloggers Quilt Festival

This is one of five quilts I did for Christmas gifts last year. I wish I photographed it better because I love this quilt! It was made for a 4 year old little boy who loves anything that moves. I started with the fabric with the vehicles and new that I wanted to fussy cut them. That was all I knew I wanted to do when I started. The quilt evolved from there. I also wanted the quilt to not feel like a baby quilt since he is quickly growing up and has a big boy bed now. I decided to use the design of the bed as the layout for the quilt and use overlapping squares. 

Initially I was going to do red, blue, and yellow with secondary colors as the small squares where they overlapped but when I started looking through my stash blue, orange, and green complemented the vehicles better. This left me to choose a color for the small overlapping squares and decided I'd use purple with deep chocolate brown (the color of his bed) for the actual squares. When I fussy cut the vehicles they were slightly askew since they weren't printed straight on the fabric. To compensated for this I bordered and squared them up. This is why they float inside the larger squares. It took me awhile to get the balance right. I kept moving the squares around on my design board until I felt I had it just right. I'm really happy with how this quilt came out because I think that it is something he will enjoy for a long time.

I'm linking up to the Bloggers Quilt Festival. Stop by if you get a chance so you too can see some other awesome quilts!

Amy's Creative Side

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    1. Thanks. I love that bed so it was easy to incorporate the design.

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  2. Beautiful! Your piecing is perfect!

    And I love that bed. He has a cooler frame than I do! :-)

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    1. Thanks. I've wanted this bed since I lived in NYC 7 years ago but never had a place for it. When I showed up to see his big boy bed I was very jealous.

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  3. I'm sure the little guy loved his new quilt. Nice job of matching it up with the bed.

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    1. He does indeed. I was happy to see that he was using it last time I went over to his house.

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  4. Thank you for sharing how you developed the quilt. It really looks wonderful, and I love how the bed was part of your inspiration.

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    1. Thanks. Funny where you find inspiration sometimes.

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  5. wonderful modern design!

    Check out my blog if you can...

    Margaret Gunn
    www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com

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  6. Love how you incorporated the look of the bed into the quilt design!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

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  7. I love the overlapping window setting of this - well done!!

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    1. Thanks. I'm thinking of doing another one of this design since I loved it so much.

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  8. What a lovely quilt, great job:))

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  9. really a wonderful boy quilt. that design mimicking his bed is so fantastic! thanks for sharing and have a great day

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