This quilt should have been finished last fall for my five year old, but it's just barely made it to the quilt top stage. It started with a request from my son to use some construction truck fabric, and honestly, I was stumped. I pulled a stack of rainbow blenders to go with the trucks, and it sat on the edge of my sewing table, quietly mocking me.
But when I had a bout of inspiration and cut the truck fabric from the mix, I immediately knew that I wanted to make another plus quilt.
Ten blocks in, I started to doubt myself. Would this actually look okay? I had made a lot of the blue and green blocks, and I found myself wishing I had limited the palette to those two colors. (Wouldn't a scrappy blue and green plus quilt look yum?) But I kept pushing forward, and when all sixteen were lined up, I was happy with the result.
Of course, as I was piecing the backing this morning, my son asked me where the construction trucks were going to be, and I still haven't figured out that one. Maybe the quilt label will have trucks?
I'm planning to all over FMQ this one, which will be the first time--I think?--that I have ever done that!
What does the truck fabric look like? Can it be the binding? :) The quilt top looks great - so colorful and fun!
ReplyDeleteI think it's really fun! A great quilt for a kid. I definitely would have loved it when I was a kid :D I love anything with crazy bright colors... I guess that's not so different from now ;)
ReplyDeletematching truck pillowcases?
ReplyDeletepoor boy - no trucks!!! A big label on the back I reckon, and some matching pillows :-)
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