My eldest son has reached the age of 10 1/2and seems very old! He has a fish tank quilt from when he was 4/5, which is no longer cool! (I did catch him snuggled under it the other day though!)
So it is clearly time to make him a new quilt - any old excuse to go fabric shopping!
Over the summer we hunted through the online shops I like and looked at all sorts of blogs for fabric inspiration. I love the new Parsons Gray range, like this bundle from
Eclectic Maker, but he thought it was too old!
He was right, but I did get this sinking feeling that we were going to get stuck choosing fabric!
Then we saw the gorgeous range from designer
Jessica Hogarth, Velocity. I first saw it at the
Festival of Quilts on the fabulous
Backstitch stall - I love Alice's shop! So I bought some from the range and bought it home for him to check out!
We had found a winner!
He loves the deep blues, oranges and shapes... so we bought a bundle with the entire collection from Alice and then last week I found the missing piece from the range at
The Village Haberdashery:
We have decided to use a pattern in Quilting Modern by
Jacquie Gering and
Katie Pedersen which has off centre blocks and curvy waves:
I discovered this week that 2 Kona Solids, Tangerine and Glacier, co-ordinate beautifully with the designs so more of those have been ordered from
Simply Solids to break up the pattern.
So this is the project over the Christmas break.... I try to make a quilt every Christmas break and this year it is for my gorgeous big boy!
