For my third and last boy I was inspired by my nephew Colin's bright room and bright quilt to do something else bright and cheerful. I chose tangerine, teal, and lime green for his room. Bold, but it turned out. I was inspired by the pictures in a series of dinosaur books by Jan Lewis. Of course any dinosaur print was by itself too cutesy and tacky for me to want to use as is, but I dealt with this by chopping things up again. Like the doggy quilt for Zachary, I was challenged by the non-square and inconsistent shapes of my cut out dinosaurs, but I modified a design called Crazy Patch Saffari by BrendaBarb Designs in the book Quilting for Baby. I used crazy quilt blocks in a window pane design with lots of bright borders around them. The hardest was the saw-tooth border. I knew that's what I wanted, but because this part wasn't in any pre-designed pattern from a book, I had to figure out how to incorporate it. That wouldn't be hard if it was just a plain border, but with the triangles, I had to figure out mathematically what size the triangles needed to be in order to not have a half triangle at the end of the row. It was not fun, but I'm glad I did it. I like those dino-inspired teeth around the edges.
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| Crazy dinosaurs out the windows |
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| tangerine satin on the back really shows off the free motion quilting |
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| a close up shows his name and date embroidered and the free motion quilting curlycues. |
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