Saturday 22 July 2017

Aidan's Alphabet

Shortly after my second grandson was born I ran across an animal alphabet panel at The Handmaiden in Sandy. I’d made two baby quilts from similar panels – one in pastels and one in bright primary colors – but they were both Hungry Animal Alphabet by J. Wecker Frisch for Quilting Treasures. This panel was bigger, and I thought it would make a good twin-size coverlet for a big brother about to give up his crib. I got the panel home and realized the twelve pictures were more rectangular than square. So I gave them wonky red frames to disguise their un-square-ness. At the time, my grandson was all about the alphabet, reading, and playing I Spy. Now he’s more into Magic School Bus, Captain America, and watching Disney rides on YouTube. He’s nearly worn this quilt to threads, so it may be time to dream up a new one. Maybe when he outgrows chewing the binding.

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