These are some quilts that were made and donated in 2014. I have a bunch of Thomas fabric, because L loved the trains when he was younger and I would go buy fabric he liked with the intent of making charity quilts. Not that I ever managed to do the MAKING, but I did plenty of BUYING! So now it is time to come up with a plan to use up some of that fun fabric.
I realized that the print is rather large on this particular version, so decided to play with bow-tie blocks as a setting around the feature fabric. Of course, I had to play with a couple different variations, just to see what effects I could get! Three are now completed:
The yellow and green combo uses some leftover strips of the Thomas fabric for the binding.
I used the green fabric for the backing on both of the smaller quilts - I must have bought quite a bit of it! I absolutely love the teal fabric that I used on the binding for both of them.
These could have been tied, but would have required guessing at the center of the Thomas blocks. Since I was a little ahead on the tops anyway, I went ahead and machine quilted these. I used a variegated red/orange/yellow thread. Straight-line stitching on the red/yellow and green/yellow tops, and a zigzag stitch on the four-color top.
Lots of stitch-in-the-ditch and diagonal quilting to hold it together, and they all look pretty good!
All three have been delivered and are hopefully pleasing three little boys!
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