Hazel's birthday quilt

I made Hazel a quilt for her birthday.  Her favorite movie is Short Circuit 2 and she loves robots so I used what was left of the fabric I bought to make John's quilt.  John of course is super excited that they have quilts that match.  My next project is a quilted pillow sham for John, using up the last bit of the robot/gears fabric I have.

We're still alive

I hate winter, with a passion.  Being stuck inside with 4 kids all winter long is pure torture and I'm simply trying to survive.  As a result there really hasn't been much of anything to share.

Anyway the holidays are upon us, even though I'm so not into it at all this year.  I try to make the kids a few homemade gifts each year and this year the theme is quilts.  I started off making them little doll quilts and may have become slightly addicted and gotten a little carried away.

So John's doll quilt.  And yes John is very into playing with dolls


Bella's


Then I decided to go a little bigger and made a small quilt for Hazel


Then I found this Berenstain Bears fabric for Phoebe.  Or as she calls them the Dancing Bears




When I asked Bella what she wanted for a quilt she said Roy G. Biv.  Doesn't get much easier than that.  I made hers in one day.



Deciding on fabric for John was harder.  Then I found the perfect thing.  All his favorite colors with robots and gears on them.  And it matches his room.





Then I ran out of kids and got bored.  I made one for me that I'm not too in love with, Phoebe stole it for now because she doesn't know I've made her one.  So then I decided to make one for my sister.  I planned on it being a lap size quilt but messed up on the math and ended up buying twice as much fabric as I needed (the half square triangles confused me.)  So it ended up being twin size.

About 25% of the way through I was feeling like I had bit off way more than I could chew.  And with Yule getting closer I felt the need to get it done.  I'm happy to say it was so worth it, it turned out awesome.  I had a really hard time wrapping it up and sending it away.



This ended up being my favorite block, which kind of surprised me because I'm not really a fan of polka dots.


And this is probably my second favorite


And I adore the backing fabric


And I'm knitting a rug out of the tiny fabric scraps that would have otherwise been thrown away


And this one was knit out of old t-shirts