Baby Jack's Quilt

My friends had a little boy last November (the 8th in fact!) and of course i had to make him a quilt :D
Yesterday was his "Wetting the Baby's Head" party so i was able to finally pass it on to them, plus we got to eat some pretty awesome cakes!

I had some fabric left over from another baby quit i made and then when i was at their house i realised i had the perfect fabric to match the nursery curtains and it also blended really well with the "Grow with Me" that i had left over :D

Perfect!

That's "Grow with Me" on the right and the spotty on the left and "Sassy" middle and left :)

I then had to settle on a design which of course i couldn't just have got from a book or a website. Oh, no! It had to be "right"!! I saw a couple i liked but they weren't quite right so i decided to take inspiration from them and combine them. There's Bounding Rectangles and Little Leapfrog both from the Project12 blog.

I started out with my squared paper and an idea...

and then i got cutting! Always a heart-in-the-mouth moment this. I dither for ages before cutting as i am terrified that i will have worked something out wrong!

Fortunately this time it all went smoothly...

 ...and i ended up with a lovely pile of bits to play with :D

After much fiddling - again, i can't just lay it out and say "that's lovely, it'll do" - i have to fiddle for hours, even days to get it "just right" before i can commit to the sewing but i eventually got there.

and then all i had to do was decide on the final layout and sew the top together!

I had all this finished back in October last year but i had to wait until i found "just the right" backing fabric until i could complete it. Luckily Lisa and i had our annual trip to the Creative Stitch and wotsit show at Sandown Racecourse where i found the most gorgeous giraffe fabric with just the right colours in it :D