Frank’s quilt

I have been quilting a lot lately.  This is actually one of SIX new quilts that I have to share with you!

This quilt is for baby Franklin who was born in November of last year.  He is the first-born of friends Marc & Angela.  Frank is an absolutely ADORABLE baby, and if that wasn’t enough, he writes, too!  Check out his blog: The New King of Downtown.  Cute factor: VERY HIGH.  You’ve been warned.

Josh was helping me come up with an idea for Frank’s quilt and and joked that his dad Marc likes all things Swedish {which is kind of true, right Marc?}.  On a whim, I googled something like Swedish fabric and found this awesome owl fabric sold on Etsy.  I think it’s actually Japanese produced fabric, but the designer is from Sweden.  Above all, the hand-drawn look really sucked me in and that was how the inspiration took hold.

I went monochrome, baby.  I loved the chevron print I found at my local quilt shop Adel Quilting & Dry Goods and just added the blue fabric from my stash and called it a day.  It’s called letting the large prints do the work.  I made this quilt coming off a 2,000+ seam baby quilt  (I’ll post about that one next), so you can understand why I chose large prints and T-W-O seams. 

Here’s a close up of the quilting done in blue thread.

The binding.

I loved the retro looking back fabric, too, also from Adel Quilting & Dry Goods.

It was so much fun and so very satisfying to make this quick quilt… and the cuteness didn’t suffer for simplicity.