Here is the first quilt finish of year. It was not a UFO - it was done in about a week.
Holly is on my team at work and imagine her surprise to discover that she was expecting her 4th (!) child at 42. Her other kids are 18, 13 and 11. So as the fabulous department that we are, we threw her a baby shower. (With me, there are 10 women - all moms and 1 man - and he has 2 grown children.)
Awhile ago, my MIL gave me some sports fabric because her grandsons are not into sports and she had no idea where she would use it. I've stashed it for a boy quilt, and when Holly figured out she was having a boy, it was a logical choice. Holly's older kids have all been in sports and her husband is a coach, so here was the fabric selection for baby Cody's quilt!
When I pulled out all the fabric, they were nearly all 10 layer cake charms. The other pieces were larger than that. My favorite, no thought required, quilt is the Double Slice (DS). My MIL's stash had 28 pieces and so I only had to find 2 more sports fabrics to get to 30. I found 3 or 4.
I don't like the cut-sew-cut directions for the DS. I actually just cut everything into 3.5 x 5 and 6.5 x 5 pieces and sew from there. (I trim my scraps this way and keep a shoebox for these pieces!) I sewed up all the halves and then stacked them up and sewed all the blocks. I set it 5 x 6.
The challenge is that there was a lot of fabric with black backgrounds, and I didn't want it all to pool in any one spot on the quilt. Eventually I got a good layout and got it sewn up.
My go-to quilting is to use a serpentine stitch on every stinking seam (ESS). It looks like unilock pavers on the back. I found a bright green Greek key fabric for the back.
I think there are 20 sports represented on this quilt.
It measures 45 x 54 and busted 3.72 yards of stash.
Baby Cody arrived safe and sound and is the 6th man in the family lineup.
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