Sometime last year, Michael came to me and said, "Mom, I think I'm too old for my monkey quilt." And while I knew this was coming, a piece of me still died when he told me that.
We decided to make him a new quilt for Christmas. We asked Julie to quilt it, and I asked her how soon she would need it pieced together in order for quilt it in time for Christmas, and we agreed that if I had the top done by Thanksgiving, she could have it quilted in time. First step was to find the right fabric.
We're all a little bit particular about patterns around here, and Michael has really been into dark colors...like black and Navy blue. It was a challenge to find the right ones that we though he'd like. We ended up going to at least four different fabric stores. Here are pictures from our research:
Poor Gabe was sick and joined me in the craft room while I was sewing Michael's quilt.
I got the initial fabric sewn up...and absolutely hated it.
I brought Brian in to experiment with a new pattern.
We also rejected some of the fabrics we had chosen, and I went in search of different fabric again.
I kept sending pictures back to Brian to get his opinion.
And then we experimented with placement some more. We had to unpick all that I had sewn, so we wanted to get it right.
We checked and rechecked our math over and over again.
Then compared all the pictures to decide what we were going to do.
Finally, with our decided colors, I got back to cutting and sewing. I got the top finished and the sham ready too just before Thanksgiving. Phew! You'll have to wait until I write about December to see the finished product.
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