Sunday, January 29, 2023

A Quilt for Wesley

Having successfully produced a first progeny, one of my colleagues and her husband decided to take another stab at it.  The product of their labors...literally...is a fine young man named Wesley.

For his quilt, I opted for a selection of fabric featuring Peanut's characters.  

The whole quilt modeled by my beloved bride.  Click to embiggen

Single panel.  Click to embiggen

This pattern is known as "log cabin".  It was the first pattern that I learned and it is one that I enjoy using.  You can do so much within the confines of that pattern.  

Unfortunately, I ran into the quilter's nightmare with this quilt.  There are lots of different approaches to laying out a log cabin quilt.  You can rotate the panels to make several different patterns.  But the ever-present risk is that you can end up unintentionally making swastikas.  This particular fabric selection seemed to make it hard to use any of the other layouts that I know without making a swastika here and there.  There are other quilting patterns that have similar problems.

And well, I wouldn't do that to young Wesley.  So here we are.  He approves!


Young Master Wesley.  Yup.  He's a keeper.  - Click to embiggen

Master Wesley's canine compatriot also approves! - Click to embiggen

A Quilt for Holly

 As detailed elsewhere, I had made a quilt for my sister-in-law Tracy.  It was supposed to be a Christmas present last year.  But my beloved bride wanted to give one to my sister-in-law Holly at the same time.  So off we went to the fabric store!

Oh the pain!  The torture!  To have to buy fabric!

The pattern is the same basic pattern that I used for Tracy's quilt.  The big difference was in the fabric.  Holly is a Detroit Lions fan.

The ever-stylish Holly modeling her quilt - click to embiggen

I did one thing differently on this quilt.  I always complain about using fabrics that are not dimensionally stable.  That fleecy backing material is no exception.

This time around, I used some spray adhesive to hold the backing material to the batting.  That made it quite dimensionally stable when I was quilting the layers together.

Merry Christmas, Holly!