Crazy Amiloo* Quilt

I finished this late on Wednesday night and took it around to the intended recipients last night. They seemed to like it which of course pleases me. This was made for little Miss L and her parents R and N. The design was intended to appeal to the new Papa. My feeling was that anything too tasteful or arty would not have been well received. Thankfully new Mama also likes it.

Three lovely peeps answered my call for fun animal fabric: Hometime, Kilian and 10B. Thank you! It wouldn't have been so marvellously mad without your contributions. Anything simply geometrically patterned is from my stash, plus the two embroidered patches which are cut from swiss cotton children's handkerchiefs.

After receiving all the donated fabrics, two rough colour themes emerged. There were a bunch of red based fabric and another bunch of pale and cool colours. So I augmented them from my stash and checkerboarded the lot. I wanted some organisation to the chaos but It needed to be simple to keep the construction time down. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.










*   "Amiloo" is the word I used before (and for a fair while after) I could manage to pronounce "animal".