Vacation Finish #3

The final quilt I finished on vacation was a little something I made for this perfect little guy, not quite three weeks old when I met him on Wednesday.

Theo is the second son of one of my very good friends from college. I didn’t originally have big plans for a quilt for him, but when my friend mentioned a month or two ago that his nursery was done in a sock monkey theme… you know I just couldn’t resist.

It came together ridiculously fast, especially since I found the fabric from an Etsy seller who was selling a bundle of 5″ squares, eight each of five prints.  Got a bit of extra yardage that became borders, backing and binding, and threw in that orange border from my stash, and it was a cute little thing. I didn’t measure it, but I suspect that it’s maybe a bit under 36″ square after washing.  I quilted it just with a random stipple in cream-colored thread.

As much as I dig pieced backings, sometimes it’s nice to make something small enough that you can just use a single cut of fabric. And that numbers print was just perfect.

And you know I can’t resist a dotty binding.   So much cute, and I think my friend really liked it.  Hooray!

We’re finally back home after our two-week-long Midwest adventure, and I’m so glad to be here. Itching to get a lot of sewing done, but there also seems to be a million things to do around the house, so I’m going to try to find a balance and not totally neglect the rest of my house in the name of fabric. We’ll see how that goes!