Little Boy Blue

Originally, this quilt was meant to be for Callie's baby shower.  I knew Callie's baby will be a boy, so I chose blues and grays for the color scheme.  I had a piece of gray minky for the back, which is why I chose gray for the secondary color.  This quilt will use up some scraps.  (My scrap bin overfloweth!)  I had a cool pattern that I had been wanting to try, and this seemed the perfect opportunity. However, after making my 12 blocks for the 3x4 layout, I had seconds thoughts.  This didn't look like a "baby" quilt to me!  Baby quilts (in my mind) should be either pastel colors, or bright primary colors.  I decide not to use these blocks for Callie's quilt.  So these blocks got put on the back shelf for awhile.  It still will make a nice little boy quilt, so I named it "Little Boy Blue", and put it back on the design wall. I will donate this quilt to Project Linus when it is finished.

Now that Little Boy Blue was no longer a baby blanket, I wanted to make it bigger.  I experimented with various layouts of the blocks, and decided on this one:

The "Keys" lay around a center square and the blocks will be sewn using partial seams.  I will use the same fabric for the center squares and the borders.  This was a quick project, especially since the block elements were already constructed.

Here is the finished quilt top, ready to sandwich, pin, and quilt:

The quilting was really fun to do on this quilt.  I chose a Greek Key to quilt on the checkered centered squares and on the borders.  The little checkers are a quarter inch apart, so that was perfect for spacing the Greek Keys.  It turned out really nice and I regret that I did not get a picture of the quilted borders with the Greek Keys going around them.  But I have the picture of the center squares!  Here it is:

You can see that I used a piece of gray minky for this quilt.  That was the original plan when this was supposed to be a baby quilt, but I used it to back Callie's baby quilt, the 4 Bears quilt. I was very surprised and pleased that the leftover piece of Minky was big enough to fit this quilt too.  So I got two small quilt out of that piece of minky!  Good planning!  LOL.

Here is the finished quilt, which was donated to Project Linus at the Madison Quilt Expo in September.