for the third round of blogger’s quilt festival, i decided to highlight my boy’s quilt since amy had a hand in making it through our quilting bee, a notion or 2.
i sent everyone a fat quarter and 2 fat eighths of numerous different fabrics. (i just counted, there were 12 different prints.) they could add fabric, but i asked that they only use yellow, orange, brown, tan and turquoise, with black and white being a given since they are in practically everything.
justice is into cars, robots, pirates & trains. i got back a ton of really great blocks. every time i looked to flickr, there was a new block and they blew me away. i did the entire third row. (the car, his name & the bear block.)
i collected them all in st. louis & brought them to the desert to piece them together. i originally planned on giving all the kids their quilts for chrannukah, but didn’t end up getting some of the girls’ squares back and didn’t have time to make more before we devoured presents. i ended up giving it to him for his 4th birthday.
i had a lot of coordinating material left over, so i squared up each block to 16 inches with the extras. it was already pretty big and i didn’t want it to be any wider, so i made rows of blocks and only added white sashing between the rows horizontally.
the back is a large log cabin made of my paternal grandma’s 2″ squares that i inherited & still more leftovers.
i had been eyeing jay mccarroll’s germania since it came out (and now there are knits!) & the colors were perfect, so i snagged a couple of yards to shore up the back.
this was also the largest quilt i’ve quilted on my own. it was kind of daunting, but i managed to do it and think the free-motion quilting turned out pretty well. i’ve had some tension issues on the back side, but i just had my machine serviced and made sure to slow down a bit. so far, i haven’t had any stair-step issues like i did in the past.
for the binding, i used up almost all of the remaining scraps & really like the scrappy look.
my boy loves his quilt and i’m a proud mama for making it for him with the help of my friends. i hope to get it together to show off the quilts for the girls. which reminds that miss james will be 2 in 2.5 months & i need to get her quilt done! first, to move into the new digs. soon, hopefully, very soon.
mommymae 
Spirited quilt. Great work.
That’s a great quilt that you made for your son. The colors work very well with each other.
I absolutely love this quilt! You definitely can’t take it all in at a glance, it draws you in to look closer. Very cool!
Love, LOVE! What a great quilt, so bright and cheery!
Thats a very nice quilt. So fresh looking.
Those are great quilts! I’m always amazed by people who have this sort of patient talent
Lots of interesting blocks and I like the back.
How sweet, though when I first looked at it, I thought, Oh Lord, this quilt has the F-word right smack in the middle…haha! I love the back too.
nice quilt and fun way to do it with friends’ help. great pictures
So unique! I love it!
This makes me want to quilt lol, and I know nothing about it. ^_^
This is fabulous! The back is soo sweet. I love the story behind the squares. I need to try a quilting bee. I think I need to wait until the kids are at school. How do you find time for it?
Our kids’ quilts were made by my great grandmother, I think. I know they’re old and that I didn’t make them.
What a great quilt! This will always be a special quilt for your little boy.
Wow, it looks so great. I have yet to do such a big quilt free motion. Awesome!
Very cute. I love the pieced binding. Bee quilts are so much fun to put together. i have two more to do myself. 🙂 Excellent work!
Too cute! And so fun to have blocks made by friends.
Very beautiful Quilt is work!
I love your son’s quilt. The colors are wonderful.
What a fantastic gift for your child! I love that this quilt holds so many memories and that so many people helped in the making of it.