Highway Quilt

I have been working on quilts, just not posting.  I'm almost done with the Indigo and Lace quilting.  There is a LOT more quilting on this than most of my other quilts, and way more than I had originally planned!  But I had to take a time out on it because I have another baby shower coming up, and my reputation precedes me.  A baby quilt was necessary!

So, I know this baby will be a boy.  Great!  Off I went to the fabric store for baby fabric (i.e.  something blue.)  But it occurred to me that babies are babies for such a short while, and I wanted a quilt that wouldn't just be packed away after the baby turns 1!  So I came up with this:

Front

Back

 This quilt measures 42 x 53, so it is a nice size, bigger than a "baby" quilt but not too big.  It fit nicely on my design wall, so I was able to use spray adhesive to do the sandwich. First time I ever did a quilt that way that actually worked!  (I tried it once before on a very large quilt and ended up pinning it anyway.) I used a piece of the Polyester  batting (UGH!) too, it stayed put because of the spray adhesive.  So, no pinning necessary!  Yay!  The front is a solid piece of fabric, so no piecing was necessary!  SUPER EASY!!  Then I just quilted the outlines of the roads and signs/objects.  Put a binding on.  Done is less than 2 days!  The back is fleece, super soft.  This quilt can be a blanket or a play mat.  I can envision hot wheel cars zooming along these roadways.   I'm very happy with it.