What a Life!

Yesterday I had to go to town to return a library book for Steve. Of course, while I was in town without a long list of errands to do, I made use of the opportunity to spend some time at my favorite store, Barnes & Noble.

One of the sections I visited was the Craft section where all of the knitting and quilting books are. In my browsing I did find an interesting series of quilting books from the Thimbleberries. I must say, I like their style. The quilting book I have right now is strip quilting, which is fun and easy and looks nice, but I wanted to expand my horizons a little. I’ve paged through many magazines and books looking for patterns I like. So many quilting books these days have these modern art style quilts – they may technically be quilts because they are made with pieces of fabric sewn together and then quilted with batting between two layers of fabric, but they are certainly not what I think of when I think of quilts. The Thimbleberries quilts, though, look very “quilty” to me.

In looking through their patterns, I found one that I want to make for Ben for him to enjoy once we move him to a twin bed some time next year. I’m thinking that making the quilt and talking about the transition will help make it easy and fun (at least theoretically). Ben can be quite slow to warm up to new ways of doing things, to put it mildly. Here is a picture of the quilt I want to make:

From what I gather based on what I’ve read online, they sell the specific fabric used to make that particular quilt. But from the looks of it, I’m sure I wouldn’t have much of a problem finding fabric that would work. The main colors in his room are blue and yellow, but we also mixed in some red and green with the wallpaper border we put around the top of the room. I’ve seen some great fabric that would work well around the edge, and finding small prints in blue, green, red and yellow shouldn’t be too hard.

It looks like a fun quilt to make. It won’t be as systematic as the stip-quilting technique, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. I’m thinking that if I go back into town today or tomorrow (depending on the weather), I’m going to stop by a couple quilt shops and see if I can find the pattern and look at fabric.

I wanted to make Ben a quilt that would cheer up the room and would be interesting to sit and look at if you were sitting on your bed. I think this one fits the bill. One step closer to getting Ben into a regular bed…