I made a quilt for my first son's 1st birthday, so I couldn't not make my second son one too...even though neither of them will remember said first birthdays!
The difference is that this quilt was made almost entirely from stash materials, I only had to buy a little bit of navy and green leaf-print fleece, maybe a yard and a half or so, to cover the entire back.
Everything else I already had; Kermit quilting cotton from the thrift store, a jelly roll by a brand called Stripz purchased on clearance from WalMart, and Kermit fleece I only bought because because
my dream Muppet fleece was out of stock.
This Muppet quilt ended up long and narrow, just like my string-bean shaped baby-- kind of in-between toddler and twin sized.
I still hate how much static electricity fleece generates, but I'm starting to warm to it because I find it so darn easy to work with.
The top is just a random, er, "design" I came up with (I just sewed strips and slashed here and there until it resembled a rectangle). There is no batting, but I decided this will be my last quilt that I do that.
For the quilting I did double random lines, my first time trying random line quilting. Also my first time using spray basting and I am a total convert! In fact, I'm thinking of going back and re-doing my two other most recent quilts to eliminate puckering...
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