Amy at Park City Girl is hosting a Quilt Festival for the rest of us – i.e., everyone who is not in Houston at the International Quilt Festival. And yes, I am late! Today is the last day of Amy’s QF. I’ve been enjoying browsing through some of the 600+ links to pictures and stories of favorite quilts. I don’t actually have a favorite quilt. The quilts in my house that have been made by someone else are all precious. The quilts that I have made have almost all been made for babies of dear friends. So, while I can’t choose a favorite, I will share the quilt that was the most fun to make.
I made this quilt in 2007 for my friend’s son.
(Blogged here.)
The appliqued blocks each have a picture to represent a letter of the alphabet. Apple = A, Ball = B, etc. My husband and I had a lot of fun coming up with pictures for each letter. My favorites are T = Trogdor, a character from a website that the baby’s father and my husband both like; W = Weed Patch, the name of the store owned by the baby’s parents; and Y = mx+b, a tribute to the baby’s grandfather, who is a dear friend and a math PhD.
Two and a half years later, I look at this quilt and see all sorts of things I would do differently. Thank you to my friends who received those first guinea pig quilts! (If your kids’ quilts are falling apart, feel free to send them back for repairs!) But I really loved making this one.