When my 7-year-old granddaughter (known here as Dolphin) saw us picking out fabric for an anniversary quilt I was making for her mother, she said she wanted to choose some fabric for a new quilt for herself. Actually, I started learning to quilt 8 years ago so I could make a baby quilt for this little girl. She has long ago outgrown the baby quilt and I was happy to take her shopping for just the right fabric. It took her a short time to pick out butterfly fabric in pink and lavendar and the border in pale pink. We thought maybe a brighter pink would work better, but she wanted it to be all pastel.
Since this quilt will be drug around the house and probably wind up as a tent, a theater curtain or anything else a first-grader can imagine, I wanted to make it sturdy and without my favorite intricate piecing. It was a very fast quilt to put together with 12-inch blocks, 1-1/2 inch sashing and borders which became a rather wide 6 inches because of the length and width that Dolphin requested.
For the backing/batting, she chose a flowered fleece which she liked because it was so snuggly-soft.
Her mother also loved the soft fleece backing (and she loves large bright-colored flowers).
The only place I used a bright pink color was in the binding. I scanned a picture of Dolphin and me and printed it on fabric to make a label so she would always remember how we looked when she received the quilt.
Because of the fleece backing, I could use minimum quilting and just did some very simple straight line and in-the-ditch machine quilting. The finished quilt measures 50×63 inches.
LILLIAN'S CUPBOARD 