Packing Blankets

When I had my surgery almost 7 months ago, my mother in law

made me this awesome get well quilt.

It kept me warm and cocooned as I recovered.

Little Man had his tonsils out last Wednesday.

 For him, it was extremely traumatic, and he has been a bit upset about it for the last few days.

He came out to run a few errands with me after church yesterday, and while in the car, he asked me if he could get a quilt too.

Huh? How did I miss that?

So off to Jo Ann Fabric we went. He originally wanted Hot Wheels fabric, but we couldn't find any. The second choice was the movie Cars,

 so we went with that, and Hot Wheels like flamed fabric for the backing.

His favorite color is purple, so he chose that for the binding.

I bought a yard & half of each of the fabrics, and 2 3 yard packages of pre-made blanket binding along with batting.

I pinned the fabrics together.

Sewed a 1/4 inch seam around the perimeter.

I attached my walking foot and did some free form quilting.

After that, I pinned and sewed the binding, all while watching the

 Mets beat the Yankees in 10 innings (the Big Man is a Yankees fan, I love my M-E-T-S Mets Mets Mets)

And then, we had a quilt in a day!

Little Man loves it so much that it went everywhere with him last night, and when I checked on him this morning, he was all wrapped up in it.

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flooding, Sioux Falls 2009

One of our favorite rainy day things to do is to have an indoor picnic.

You have picnic fare-I love my chips and sandwiches, and of course healthy stuff too.

My favorite picnic go to meals are sandwiches-I love roast beef, horseradish sauce and lettuce; Little Man loves cheese sammys and the Big Man loves lunch meat, period!

And you spread it on a lovely blanket on the floor.

I love fat quarter quilts, and I created a very easy pattern to make your very own fat quarter quilt.

I took about 20 fat quarters

1 1/2 yards backing fabric

binding

batting

normal quilting supplies

I sewed the fat quarters together, 4 for each row.

I then sewed the 5 rows together.

I then attached the backing fabric to batting to the quilt top.

Pin, and sew.

My usual quilting method is stitch in the ditch. Its fast and efficient.

Pin the binding.

Sew the binding.

And...you are done!