This time of COVID-19 has put some extra stress and anxiety on our children. My co-worker's daughter was feeling that around the first part of August. There has been so much uncertainty about the new school year and how that would be handled, along with all the summer fun activities with friends being cancelled. I offered to make a quilt for this 14-year old. I got to go shopping for awesome cheery fabrics for someone who loves animals. I did use a little bit of fabric from my own stash, however the main fabrics are from a current line. I wanted a quick easy, yet fun, quilt design, so I went on-line to Missouri Star Quilt Company and watched the Tile Style video. I discovered something about these MSQC tutorials. She really just gives a quick overview and leaves out important pressing instructions to aid the quilter in clean seam joinings. After the first block made me realize this was the case, I looked back at the video, at the close-up the the finished quilt and paused the video. I could see she had lumpy, not-exactly-joining-smoothly intersection on all those squares. I planned which way I would press the parts of my blocks so they would all go together correctly, but I still had problems with many of the blocks being right next to the same patterned block. This is something else that Jenny at MSQC did not care about in the quilt she made. I care and believe in "planned randomness". I did some seam ripping and resewing , but I was on a mission. I think I made it bigger than I meant to, but decided that was okay as she is a tall gal.
This is the quilt front. If you click on the photo it will show you a closer up (bigger) view of it. My co-worker was very happy with it and so was his daughter. That makes me happy.
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