For Christmas, I made an I-Spy quilt for The Brood, which they love. I’m really happy they like it because they were pretty apathetic about the other quilts I made them (which is fine, I don’t expect a baby to have much of an opinion about which blanket they’re spitting up on). =D I almost wish I had made the quilt bigger with more blocks except that I didn’t want to sew more blocks…
I-Spy quilts require a bit of planning because getting enough blocks takes time. I think the best way is to join a swap group. I joined the I-Spy swap group on Yahoo Groups which is a very well run group. I participated in 4 swaps before I had enough blocks to make my quilts.
I made 2 I-Spy quilts at the same time, one for my brood and one for Aimee’s girls. Each quilt had 56 blocks and I used a staggered and framed block layout.
I decided to try sending the quilts out for quilting this time. I’m so glad I did because Melissa at Sew Shabby Quilting did a wonderful job and I love the results! This is computerized end-to-end quilting: flowers for Aimee and bubbles for mine.
I also made quilt labels for the first time. I embroidered them on my embroidery machine and hand sewed them in. (Names redacted to protect kiddo privacy.)
And some final photos.
I had a lot of fun making these so I wouldn’t mind doing it again. And good thing too as I have a ton of I-Spy blocks left from my swaps…
