Another quilt finished! This is a quilt made on commission for a friend's nephew. I don't often work in flannels and this quilt suggested why - despite being a single bed topper it was very heavy by the end when I was binding it. Flannel also has a bit more give in it than cotton, which also proved challenging. I actually had all good intentions of completing this quilt for her nephew when he was a *baby*, ahem, last year but then I fell pregnant and had my own baby to distract me...so the baby quilt became a little boy quilt instead - increasing in size to fit a "big boy bed" and benefiting (I feel) from the addition of a bit of red and dark blue to de-baby the the overall feel.
Here it is flapping in the breeze on a windy, overcast day...
I really like the accents of red in the front, picked up by the stitching and the binding...
A detail of the zigzags sowing the different materials (the seals are my favourite, so much so that I made my label out of the seal print too! It is visible in the 2nd picture) and the red quilting stitches. I am really working on making my quilting more interesting and getting away from just doing it in the ditch to be practical...
Lovely!
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