This baby is kind of my fault. My friends and former colleagues A and J used to be just A and J until I quit to move to England. Guess who hooked up at my going-away party? And three years later, Oscar arrived, so it was only fitting that I would make him a quilt.

I chose colours that more or less went with the colour scheme in their apartment; anything baby-ish would have looked out of place (um, not that I’ve been there for a while–for all I know they’ve turned it bubble gum pink).

I’m partial to 4” square quilts, so for this one I used shades of grey, purple, and green.

The back is made of a green polka dot Tilda fabric, with a vertical line of scraps from the quilt top.

For the quilting, I stitched straight lines, a quarter inch on either side of the seam line. To add a bit of interest, though I’m sure not many would notice, I used purple thread for the upper quilt lines, and green for the lower ones.

The binding used the same green polka dot Tilda, with a short length of one of the purple fabrics aligned to one of the square rows. I managed to completely machine bind this quilt using the tutorial by Red Pepper Quilts. It wasn’t perfect, but I was really pleased with it. I’ve since tried machine binding two other quilts, to rather disastrous results, so I’m going to have to have a rethink about binding.

Along with the quilt, I sent some fabric cubes that I sewed ages ago and were just sitting in a drawer, waiting for a recipient. Doesn’t he model them all well?