Max's Two-block Quilt

Now that Something Blue is finished, I am jumping in with Max's Christmas Quilt.  I have chosen a two-block quilt, which when combined, forms a secondary pattern.

Last Christmas, after Aidan received his quilt, there was a general discussion on who should get the next Christmas quilt.  Max and Landon are the two McGuire grandkids that don't yet have a quilt from me yet.  After the discussion, I asked Max what was his favorite colors.  Max said Blue and Maroon.  I asked what color was "maroon" (it can range in a lot of variations from cranberry to purple), and Max said it was a dark purple.  Ok, I can deal with those colors.  A little later on, Max came up to me and said he really would like "blue and maroon 'underwear'" for Christmas next year. (A private joke there, involving the colors in Aidan's quilt.  He wanted to know why I wanted to know his favorite colors, and I said so I would know what color "underwear" to buy him for Christmas.  He DID get red and blue underwear, that was the joke, but also a red and blue quilt...)

Ok, so back to the 2-block quilt.  These are the two blocks:

 

Light blue, dark blue, Very dark blue, purple, gray and white.  They combine into a quilt that looks something like this:

It's not a complicated quilt, only 2 blocks, and both blocks are 9-patches, one has V-blocks, one has HST's. I DID add an extra "row" to the top and bottom, to help round out the circley-parts.  I think I may also add that same kid of a row to the sides. That way, all the blue stars will have all four points on them. Notice how the side stars run into the purple inner border, and are missing that last point?  This would add 6 inches to the width of the quilt.

I've been cutting fabrics, I have all the fabric I need already in my stash.  That's really nice!  I won't have to buy any fabric.  I might even have a piece of backing fabric that will work.  Gotta check on how big it is though.  This quilt will wind up being around 76" x 91."  Or 82 x 91 if I add on the extra "rows" to the left and the right of the quilt.)  A good size for a 13-yr old.