this is how it started out:
i had made baby quilts for the other boys when they were little, generally finishing around their first birthdays, but these were fairly small quilts and i realized that by the time they were 3 that they had outgrown them. this played into my thinking when i started designing the quilt for Ashton. keeping this in mind, i decided to make his bigger, not quite a twin size, but something that he could cuddle up in into his childhood.
i love star motifs and piecing stars for quilts is a pretty easy thing to do, so i set to work cutting and assembling stars in 3 different sizes from fabric and some of his old baby outfits and came up with a way to arrange them into a rectangle. (graph paper is a wonderful thing)
piecing the quilt top actually went quickly and i was done with most of it in about a month, working on it bit by little bit when i could find the time in the evenings. (disclaimer: i'm a machine quilter, if i don't have to sew something by hand, i'm surely not going to)
found a cute backing fabric and made the quilt sandwich, then things became tricky. this monster was twice as big as anything else i had ever finished and discouragement set in. next thing i know, i'm folding it up and shoving it in the laundry room on the pile of unfinished projects.
rummaging through the forgotten pile, it jumped out at me 2 months ago. guiltily, i pulled it back into my craft room and assessed the situation. i needed to rip out some of the quilting and there were bunches of fabric but all in all, it wasn't too bad.
finished it up 2 weeks ago and while i'm not ecstatic with the color choices (it really needs some freaking red) at least i can say it's done and on his bed most nights.
(picture shows it on our queen size bed because the pattern of his sheets was wickedly competing with it)
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