Boys at Play

When pulling fabrics for a child's quilt, I seem to have a much easier time selecting prints, patterns and colors for a girl's quilt. Part of my problem is that I tend to have a hard time finding "boy" fabrics that I like. But last summer Sarah Jane really hit it out of the ballpark with her Children at Play line. I just love her artwork, something about the innocence of the designs - paper airplanes and sailboats, hopscotch and dress up dolls, pinwheels and wagons.

I decided to take some of the little boy line and pair it with some of my favorite blenders in green, blue, yellow, orange and red.

It's really fun to play with prints like stripes, sometimes aligning them horizontally based on the center of the block...

And sometimes vertically.

I quilted this quilt in a diagonal grid. It was the first time I used the metal guide that came with my walking foot. It was actually quite helpful! The lines are about 1.5" apart. I marked the starting line and then just used my guide to work off from there.

The back is a lime green and the binding is a turquoise. The blocks are 12" squares and the final quilt measures 36" x 36". I decided to list this little quilt in my shop - it is so lacking in boy items!