My niece is expecting and her second son is due next month! Since she lives near the beach, I found what I think is the perfect quilt design to add to the nautical theme
in this book:
I know you're all surprised at the author! I've used this book to make several quilts, and have to say, I do appreciate the format and depth of instruction included.
Here's the quilt in the book:
And here's mine:
{The blocks looking red are really the same dark pink color as the book quilt}.
I had some of the suggested fabric on hand, but improvised for the rest. The border stripes are from a man's a dress shirt I bought at a thrift store. From the beginning of this project, I debated with what to do for backing. I tried using remnants from the patchwork, but too many scraps just looked like a hot mess.
I looked in the shops, found anchor fabric and such but they also didn't make the cut.
Then one day I opened an email notification of a blog post by a quilter. There before me was a photo of four blue and white quilt blocks...
(Blatant swipe from imperamagna.com)
and for some reason, I was immediately reminded of signal flags.
I decided to use the signal flags to spell out the baby's first name:
Quilt back
She liked it!
(My sincere apps to Freda for inspirational blocks).
I have another quilt top in the works. Back for show and tell tomorrow.
