oh fransson: After Dinner, But Before the Movie

February 10, 2008

After Dinner, But Before the Movie

I had a little time after dinner, but before the movie, so I decided to finish off this quilt top, which I started last weekend. This is going to be a baby quilt for Gus, twin brother of Poppy, whose partially completed baby quilt is here. Since I hadn't yet done anything about the top of Gus' quilt, I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and use one of the blocks from Sew Mama Sew's Quilt Along for last week. The block is a Crazy Nine Patch, which I'd never used before, primarily because it's a little, well, crazy for my taste. I think it works really well with these fabrics though.

The fabrics include several prints from Michael Miller's Beatnik Daisy series. The bright orange-red print with the space tentacle looking things is from Alexander Henry and, if I remember right, it's called Kenya. There are two Kaffe Fassett prints (the one that looks like hard boiled eggs and the pinked flowers). The other prints (the yellow texture one and the bold print used for sashing) are from Fabric Depot. I'm unsure of the manufacturer on those

Poppy and Gus' Mom loves giraffes. In fact, when she was a child, she told people she wanted to be a giraffe when she grew up. Knowing that, I had bought this Giraffe Minky a LONG time ago, but hadn't found anything to go with it. Pairing it with all the bold prints on the front of this quilt is going to be busy, but I think it will look cool. I'm also going to applique a big Minky giraffe on the front. (I'll probably use solid Minky for the applique though.)

I really wish that I had time to do every one of the quilt-along blocks, but I think I'm going to have to stick to choosing one each week. If only I didn't have a "real" job!

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