the superhero quilt

isaac is always super quick to remind me that he only has one quilt. he is always trying to smuggle my quilts into his room. so, i decided to make him one before the baby hit the scene. i went with superhero wonky stars.
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(disclaimer: i uploaded the photos from my phone to flickr, where i usually crop and edit them, to make them prettier. except the flickr editing tool wasn’t working. so. here are the originals.)

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the superhero fabrics were all so so so busy, so i tried to mix in some less busy, coordinating, boy colored fabrics. for sanity’s sake, i quilted with straight lines on the sides of all the square seams. our guild met for a sew in on sunday, and i knocked it out in one sitting.
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for the backing, i used the flat sheet from a spiderman sheet set that i got at the thrift store last week for $5. we never use flat sheets around here, unless you count cramming them into the corners of the bed, so it was a super sweet find.
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finally, i bound it up with some orange sketchy print. i had a ton of it. a lot of the superhero prints had orange in them. and i thought it might pop. oh, and isaac voted for it. normally, i would hand stitch the binding, but i suspected this quilt would be washed a lot. and i suspected correctly. i finished it sunday, and it’s had to be laundered three times already.
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isaac is pretty happy with it.
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the end.

One Reply to “the superhero quilt”

  1. It is an awesome quilt! Anna doesn’t look too happy about it.

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