Oink

 

Last year my grandson was talking a lot of “Oink” – I am not quite sure if it still is there– but is/was a music website.

I decided to make him a wall quilt

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Baby's play quilt by Grandma

I don't think my quilt fits the guidelines of black and white with only one other color. All of the fabric used to make the squares were black and white prints. There are cats and dogs, cow splotches, sheet music print, checked flag print, african animals, stripes, and polka dots. I used orange for the paririe points and began the sashing. I ran out, used a coordinating yellow from the stash. The unusal shape by the date is a butterfly. Its wings are moveable. Also added are grosgrain ribbon used to attach toys to the quilt.

But after completing I realized that a bit of green, yellow, and blue crept in also.

The chick with attitude was handpainted by BIL. The book and teethers were purchased from a local discount chain specifically to add to the quilt.

As you can see, the baby loves this quilt. His grandpa refuses to call the Prairie Points, "Prairie Points"---they are "Dinosaur Edges".

One Top Done....

I finally pieced together my Black & Limey...all blocks were done and hanging beautifully on my design wall all through January and into the first few weeks of February. I took a 2 day trip with a friend to the ocean and put it together! I love how it has turned out! I plan to have a friend quilt it for me, unsure what and how to quilt it yet. I made the borders as wide as the blocks - 8", to show off the design in the fabric. I'm very happy with the end results:


I have another Black/White top to work on as well, that is from a UFO over 2 years ago. I'll pick it up next!

Log Cabin Quilt Top finished

Here's the black, white and red log cabin top finished! I am so glad this is done-I was beginning to feel like it was jinxed! I finished the blocks up with no problem but then once I started to do the sashing things started to go wrong-from my first miscutting the sashing too wide to two irons burning out!

Here you can see most of the different whites I used: a white with red, a white with red and black and a white and black polka dot as well as alot of the black and whites.

Here's another black and white-I had bought this fabric years ago at a quilt show: you know, one of those rolled up fat quarters...well when I got it home I discovered it was a skeleton fabric :(

not really me...but it looks great here-I like the boldness of the white.

Here's one more black and white-its a Japanese fabric...that covers all the blacks.

Here's you can see the last white with the small black leaves-I think this was an Elly S reproduction fabric if I remember correctly.

One of the fun things of this project was using all sorts of different "era" fabrics and seeing how well each one added to the other and the overall look.