Matt's Carmel Latte

While shopping at  Back Door Quilts in Greenwood for my birthday outing with Julie and the kids last summer, I told Matt, my 16 year old grandson, to pick out a pattern for a quilt for his bed. This is what he chose:

It wouldn't have been my first choice as it's a bit too...... I'm not sure what the correct word is.
The end result is fine from far away, but there is just too much going on up close for my liking.

I purchased only a few dark browns and the rest came from my stash. I didn't follow the pattern as it calls for you to make a strata and then cut out only six 6.5" blocks on the diagonal from it. That seemed like a huge waste of fabric for me. The amount of fabric suggested on the pattern is way too high, 13-15 yards!

So, I cut up an old phone book and strip-pieced all the blocks and them trimmed them down. The outer row of blocks was to have been strip pieced blocks cut in half, but I chose to use the border fabric. The pattern doesn't call for a border, but I wanted it larger than 76" x 76" so he could use it on  his full-size bed.

I quilted it with Square Spiral and the backing is a mottled light brown flannel.

This pattern is up for grabs to the first person that says they would like to have it. Just leave me a comment and I'll get it out to you.

Design Wall Monday

Well hey, I'm actaully posting on Monday this week.

I got a few more blocks made for Matt's Carmel Latte quilt.

This quilt is made up of string blocks in these colors:
cream
cream/tan
tan
tan/light brown
light brown
light brown/dark brown
dark brown

How sweet is this?

I spent the afternoon at Julie and Jim's while they went out for their anniversary. Here is Elizabeth trying on her new dress and hat that Nana made for her last night. It's been a long time since I've done any garment sewing and it was certainly enjoyable. She wore the hat all afternoon.

Matt and I assembled Andrew's basketball center and then he spent some time with an Ipod, or maybe it was a game. He is quite the young man now and so helpful with the little kids.

Andrew's new basketball center.

Here's the back of her hat....cute, huh?

Before I left for home the kids had an easter egg hunt in the front yard. My phone battery was dead, so I didn't get any photos, but Julie said they would send me some.