Grandson's quilt and donation quilts

I can share our Grandson's Quilt now. He asked for a blanket for his birthday, not a quilt. It took a while, but I figured out that he probably wanted a heavy quilt with Minkee on the back. He sent me a picture of one of his baby quilts that he still liked and wanted a larger one to fit him. Twelve years ago, I made this baby quilt. As soon as I saw the photo he sent, I recalled how heavy the quilt was. 

His 12-year old quilt doesn't look this good anymore! 

He made the request just 9 days before his birthday so I told him it might be late. Since blue was the requested color, I went on a hunt for blue flannel for the top and blue Minkee for the back. I decided to make this really simple when I bought every blue flannel I found. I decided on a diamond layout and added a bit of red for interest. The center seemed to need something, so I added his name. The darkest navy flannel looked dull so I replaced it with navy Minkee (the dark diamond).

The quilting is a large loop de loop. 

I had 2 dark flannels, 2 mediums, and 2 lights. Replacing the darkest with the Minkee was a good choice.

The back is navy Minkee. 

This quilt is heavy, like a blanket, with a flannel top, a thin batting (Dream Cotton Natural Request - Thinnest Loft, which I use almost exclusively), and a Minkee back. And Leo was quite happy to get it just 5 days after his birthday!

Size:         64" by 72"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Steel Blue 38201

                 back - Navy 32965

Batting:     Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:    Loop de loop

Maze is a donation quilt. I saw a maze quilt and wanted to try making a one. I used graph paper and ended up with nine blocks, all the same. Each block is rotated in the quilt so the maze path interconnects.

The colored fabric is leftover fabric I had in my stash. The white path through the quilt begins/ends in the upper right corner and the lower left corner of the photo. I extended the white  into the binding so the beginning and ending are easy to find. The path is big enough to drive a matchbox car on. (That's what my boys would have done!)

The backing is navy with little squares of different colors.

Size:         57" square

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Light Grey 17543

                 back - Blueberry 30281

Batting:     Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:    Large meander

Blue Diamonds is another donation quilt.

When I got my Stripology rulers a while ago, I wanted to make some diamonds. I grabbed a few blue scraps and began cutting. All of a sudden, I had enough diamonds for a quilt so I made Blue Diamonds. The light diamonds are light blue. I just used any scrap from my leftover blues.

I decided the back needed to be exciting. And I think it is!

This quilt is easily reversible. The binding is navy.

Size:         54" by 64"

Thread:    Glide 50-wt, top - Battleship 10430

                 back - Ruby 70187

Batting:    Dream Cotton                                           
Quilting:   Meander

There's lots of quilting going on here - just like I like it!