Sunday, July 13, 2014

A quilt for baby Riley


I recently made a quilt for my good friend Simon and his 1 year old son Riley.

The criteria for selecting the fabrics and design were that the quilt needed to:
a) feature blue heavily
b) be awesome


So, with some help from the boy, I selected the above bundle of fabrics at GJs. After some playing around we settled on this fairly simple design, in order to let the fabrics shine:


And then, guess what, one of the fabrics does shine! ...well glow... it turns out the Star Wars fabric is glow in the dark!
  
If I hadn't been pressing it in the evening and then turned the lights off we might not have found out; so check your stash for any secretly glow in the dark fabric guys!



It turned out that one of the fabrics I picked was designed by "Riley Blake", so I had a nice convenient name tag on the selvedge of that fabric!

 

I did different quilting in each of the sections, including loop-de-loops in the red section to mirror the print.


And after binding in red... a fantastic new quilt!!

 

Here it is with a happy dad after being gifted:


And doesn't Riley look cosy sleeping underneath it...


And it's plenty big enough for him to grow into...


Yay for a successful quilt!

5 comments:

  1. Awww.. that is too adorable! ok, it's awesome ;)

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  2. What a fab quilt! I LOVE the glow in the dark Star Wars fabric.

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  3. Awesome quilt! I just cut all my pieces for bub #2 quilt. I am hoping to get the top all sewn up this week. Fingers crossed I get it finished before bubs arrives. My quilting will not be anywhere near as snazzy as yours though.

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  4. Gah! This is too awesome for words- also GLOW IN THE DARK FABRIC!!!! Best!

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  5. Cuteness incarnate! Think you aced the brief. It's awesome :)

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