And here is one more quilt! This is an I Spy Quilt. I got most of these squares from an I Spy quilt square exchange I did in Colorado. I selected all the more boyish squares and added some from my stash of leftover fabric. Then I arranged them in a way I found aesthetically pleasing and sewed them up into a quilt top. This was all while we lived in Colorado, over three years ago. I bought the batting and backing and my mom assembled the quilt and finished it. It looks nice and has nice fuzzy (fat) fleece on the bottom.
The kids had a fun time looking at all the squares and playing on it. I still have a bunch of more girl themed squares packed away, so maybe someday I'll get around to sewing a quilt with those.
Grant, my rambunctious five year old, wanted to find the square of "beautiful landscape" over and over - that's what he called it. That made me smile (extra points if you can spot a "beautiful landscape" - on the left side in top picture). And lots of people were trying to count dinosaurs.
Grant snuggled up in the quilt after a head bonk. See, the blanket is working already.
BONUS QUILT PHOTO!!
I was trying to tag all my quilt pictures on the blog and realized I never posted a finished picture of my Okinawa memory quilt on the blog. At least if I did I can't find it. I posted a picture on Facebook, but not the blog. And it seems I don't even have a completed picture of the quilt! Which is just a shame. Here is the completed quilt top, finished September 2012. The quilt is now completely finished, with a cream colored patterned fabric as the backing, but I don't have a picture of it finished and the quilt is still in storage. So here is the lovely quilt top! I made 20 copies of my square (surfboards on the seawall, third row down, second from right) to commemorate something about Okinawa (this was when I lived there, of course) and then exchanged with 20 other ladies. I think only 18 ended up being exchanged at the end, so I made two other squares (upper left corner and lower right corner) with "Okinawa" and the year. The squares everyone made look so nice!
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