I finished the quilt top for my baby's dinosaur quilt tonight. It is a little busy, but I think he'll like it. I took a dinosaur print and 5 brown batiks and turned it into a disappearing nine-patch toddler quilt. I purposely did not fussy cut the dinosaurs and the end result looks kind of like you're watching dinosaurs run through the forest.
When I first started putting my colors together I wasn't too sure about how this would turn out - the nine-patches that I needed to make disappear were pretty ugly looking. That fabric in the top center position is really horrifying on its own. I bought it only because it tied in the orange from the dinosaurs. Fortunately, my quilt top turned out like I imagined and wasn't the disaster it could easily have become! (Please excuse the poor quality camera phone pictures...)
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| My fabrics made some really ugly nine-patches! |
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| I kept my pattern and color placement consistent and I think that helped keep it from becoming a big brown batik mess. I like how the final top turned out and I think Peter will love pointing out all of the T. Rexes. |
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| Mr. Muppy, our quilt inspector, approves. |
I have some soft cocoa minky dot fleece to back the quilt with to make it extra snuggly for Peter. The minky fleece makes a horrible mess when you cut it though. Since our house is on the market, I won't cut that and make my sandwich until Monday night though. So why wait until Monday, you ask? My husband, in his infinite wisdom, decided that our vacuum cleaner was dirty. Did he wipe it down with a damp cloth? No. Did he empty the canister? No. He threw it away. Our house is on the market and I have no vacuum cleaner. Our cleaning people don't come until Tuesday, so I cut the minky on Monday.
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