When we were visiting Jessica and her family at Thanksgiving, Caroline asked if I would make a quilt for her. I knew she'd be moving into a queen-sized bed soon, but I don't think I can make that big of a quilt. So I told her I'd make a lap-sized quilt she could fold on the foot of her bed. Caroline likes pinwheels, but also wanted turtles, cupcakes, crabs, gummy bears, and narwhals. I decided that the pinwheels would cut the fabric into too-small pieces and you wouldn't see the motifs, so I went with the Scrappy Summer Quilt instead. If it looks familiar, it is - I made it this summer!
I may have had a little too much fun with the fabrics! I got crabs and flamingos at the beach, turtles, cupcakes, gummy bears, narwhals, and also pinwheels, text fabric (Caroline loves reading), kids with umbrellas, and little Russian nesting dolls. Then I threw in a healthy amount of my scraps.
I kept the solids bright instead of primary - hot pink, medium pink, turquoise, robin's egg blue, medium blue, yellow, orange, and green.
The backing fabric is a beautiful turquoise floral print, with solid binding (Kona Pool). Caroline's room is painted almost this exact color.
I free-motion quilted the entire quilt, and when I got to the bottom left corner, I free-motion quilted Caroline's name in cursive. Can you see it below? I know it's hard to make out - look at the solid hot pink and white blocks.
And Caroline did get her pinwheels! I used the solids to make a pinwheel pillow sham.
Happy girl! She loved it! And it was fun making it for her. Caroline is interested in sewing, and anything I can do to foster that interest is worth it.
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