Bigger Boy, Big Boy Quilt

The "rebound" Picture Play quilt from my last post has been reinstated on Gregory's bed. He recreated the picture from six years ago, too.  I told my daughter-in-law that he looked sad today, but she explained that he thought he looked like he did in the old picture! 😉 Okay, we'll go with that.


Yesterday I finished piecing the central portion of his new, big boy quilt.  It will get two more, narrow, outer borders before I go shopping for a backing piece. This went together beautifully. I used Deb Tucker's Studio 180 tools to mass-produce 140 Shaded 4-Patch units with the Tucker Trimmer and that same number of Wild Geese units with the Wing Clipper.

The quilt was designed in EQ8. Gregory selected the design from these three possible choices:

Initially, my plan was to make the quilt very scrappy using only tans, greens and blues; but, ultimately, I came up short (who woulda' thunk?) in the scrap department with such a limited palette. Let's hope when this new quilt is finished and on his bed that we'll see a much broader smile!🤞

Life is Good!

Rebound

What does the word REBOUND mean to you? According to the Google online dictionary there are three different definitions:
1. to bounce back through the air after hitting a hard surface or object.
2. recover in value, amount, or strength after a previous decrease or decline.
3. (of an event or situation) have an unexpected adverse consequence for (someone, especially the person responsible for it).  Obviously these are not the same definitions that a quilter would use; we would use the word "rebound" to refer, in the past tense, to a quilt that has had its binding replaced. It has been rebound. Now, why would a quilt possibly need to be rebound? For the very best of all reasons: because it has been loved to pieces! Gregory's six-year-old Picture Play quilt has had its binding replaced and it is ready to go back to his house.  This one is nearly ready to be retired, Nana is making him a new quilt, a bigger-boy one, for his bed. But this one will always be his first bed quilt. 

I can scarcely believe that this was six years ago. 

I only hope that he will love his next quilt as much-- to pieces. 

It's why we make quilts!

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Life is Good!