I Spy Quilts

I love the I Spy style quilts for children. These are the kind where there are a lot of different fabrics, each of which feature people, animals or objects such as food, toys or cartoon characters. I had been collecting fabrics for many years.

 I especially like collecting food fabrics. Fruits, vegetables, beverages, and fast food, like pizza and hamburgers are such fun.

 I like fish, wildlife, bugs, and butterflies.

 Clothing, toys and clowns care also fun.

 In 2009 my PTA group had its 1st Retreat. Mary, Judy and I all decided to work on the same project- a variation of an I Spy quilt. We combed through our stashes and cut 4 1/2" squares of conversation prints and cut 2 1/2" strips of fun fabrics. The bin above has what was leftover.

Here we are with the quilt tops we made at retreat. The 3 of us shared the fabrics we brought. So there is a lot of similarity in our quilts.

 I had made 2 tops. This is one of them after it was quilted.

 This is the 2nd one. It looks quite different just from using a different border.

 My niece had a baby last week. I wanted to choose gender related fabrics. Judy is the keeper of our "stash" and I chose the more male popular items for the baby boy. For this quilt, I wanted to change the design of the quilt. So I decided to frame each square with a narrow border. I like how each block is separated. This is the finished quilt.

My mother is always interested in maps and I thought I would put this fabric on the back of the quilt. Maybe this boy will take after his great grandmother and enjoy maps.