Today my baby went pooh poohs on the big toilet for the first time. He has decided to skip the potty stage and go straight to balancing on the big boy toilet just like his brother. Its just amazing how quickly my babies are turning into real little people, talking and going toilet.
So to celebrate this amazing feat by my lil man Jacob, while hes napping away I thought Id share this single bed size quilt I made for him last March for his 1st birthday.
This was one of the most simple quilt tops to put together. I simply cut the half yard pieces of fabric into strips of random thickness and pieced them together. Then laying the quilt on a single bed I measured and cut down the entire length were I wanted the appliqued panel to go so that when laid out nicely on a bed and not just thrown over a napping child the panel would sit on the edge of the bed with the rest of the pieced strips hanging down the side.
The applique was simply made of the little white strips for the "road markings" and fussy cut vehicles from the left over fabrics.
Then after sewing the 3 strips (2 pieced strips of mixed fabrics and the applique strip) together walla boom just like that I had my quilt top!!
To finish this ohh soo snugly quilt off, I simply shadowed around the applique on the blue panel, and meanderd over the the rest.
While the top of this quilt is flannel, I used 100% wool batting and blue spotty polar fleece on the back. It is soo snugly, and kept my baby warm all winter. As it was not long after his 1st birthday that he insisted on having a big bed just like his brother!! don't you just love it how second children do that, Im going to feed myself like my brother go toilet like my brother, have a big bed like my brother.
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