A quilt for Aytan

Before Aytan was born, 5 years ago, I set out to make a quilt for my first grandchild. I was too impatient to wait to find out the gender of the baby. So I made a baby quilt with pink, green, light blue and brown stars.I had recently gotten back into quilting and had found a wonderful book that showed how to make these different 8 point stars with strip piecing.

It is time for a new quilt and I’m working on it right now. Aytan loves trains, a passion I am trying to cultivate. He likes riding them, he loves model trains – so what better theme than trains.

I set out to find fabrics, some in local stores, some from online sources.A jumble of fabrics after being washed. Notice the train tracks along with train related fabric. If you are seeing some Spiderman mixed in there, that is because right now Aytan loves Spiderman and that is also a passion I keep feeding. I will be putting that fabric on the back of the quilt.

Now for a patternI love it when someone else designs a well thought out pattern. I don’t  need to do everything myself.  Allison from Cluck Cluck Sew  designed this one. The name says it all. I found the perfect fabric, train tracks to connect the boxcars.Here is a complete quilt block. I chose a grey for the background and decided that the center of the boxcar would always be a solid color. 

Here is the first row of blocks complete. I showed it to Aytan and he thought it was very pretty, I think I have a happy customer.

You noticed the non-train fabric boxcar?  Yes indeed that is Mickey Mouse, thanks to his Mom, Aytan loves Mickey and everything Disney, so into the quilt he goes.

I’m in no rush to finish this, I am enjoying the process of seeing the quilt top grow gradually. I’ll probably be posting this for  a few weeks at WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.