Thumbprint Quilts: "Echino Excellence" Quilts

After I made the "Ooo, Ooo, Ah, Ah" baby quilt set for my friend Jenna, she asked me if I would make two more quilts for her. She fell in love with some Echino fabric and bought enough to make a twin size quilt for each of her two sons. As most of us mom's have it, she just didn't have to time to get the quilts made and asked me to help her out! I was happy to help! She sent the fabric to me and it was excellent! She wanted to feature the fabric and keep it in nice big, beautiful blocks! This required some time to figure out the math. I had to get each block to fit together, keeping the blocks intact as much as possible while also getting the end result to be the right size. It was worth it!

The quilting for these quilts was complicated but rather easy at the same time. And I never think that the quilting part is easy! Lol! Again, in order to feature the fabrics, I chose a thread color and design to match each block of fabric. This required about 25 different colors of thread. For each block I chose the design of the quilting, drew it with a washable pen/pencil (yes, I went through about 4 of them!!), then stitched using the coordinating thread. The complicated part was finding matching threads for each color and deciding on the design to quilt. But because I was quilting a relatively small space, I didn't have to maneuver the whole quilt through the machine. Quilting to match each block was time consume, but enjoyable and so worth it!

The quilts turned out fantastic! They are so bright and colorful! So awesome!