Joshua’s graduation quilt

It’s a miracle…it’s not even a full year after Joshua graduated and got his GED and his quilt is DONE! Here, Joshua and Ashley are opening the quilt and looking at the top /side one!
As Joshua got close to finishing his GED exams, I asked him what fabrics and colors he would like in his graduation quilt, because of COURSE he needed a quilt for graduation! He really liked a fabric I used to cover the back of a chair (I don’t much like the chair so wanted to cover it up), so that became the “base” fabric. And Joshua loves what I do, and he loves color (I tie-dyed them Grateful-Dead-style fabric for a kitchen valance), so I put together big prints for the diamonds and small semi-solid-ish-look for the sashings. At first I thought I’d go totally random, and it looks like a mish-mosh. Then I hit on doing rainbow in the sashings, and it worked!

Here’s the quilt laid out on our queen sized bed. It is about 86×97 inches. I wish I’d made it one row wider, but by the time I figured that out the skinny half-triangles on the side were done, so I called it good!
My initial idea was to do random large blocks, but I wasn’t certain it would look good. So I hit on the Kaffe Fassett inspired diamonds. THEN I took the leftovers and made the back (or the other front?):

Here’s the back of the quilt, which can be an “other” side. I used more of the blues and greens here.
Then I asked Joshua to wrap up in the quilt:
And then I asked them both to wrap up in it:
And here’s Ashley looking like a very colorfil Cousin It:
And then Joshua couldn’t resist the tempation….
So that’s Joshua’s graduation quilt, and he even got it not-too-late!
March 26th, 2014 at 5:08 pm
You’re going to keep them up nights trying to decide which side is up.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Doesn’t it feel good to have a finish and a celebration at the same time!!! The quilt is beautiful.
March 26th, 2014 at 10:06 pm
Great quilt and a really cute couple!
March 27th, 2014 at 12:03 am
Lovely!
March 27th, 2014 at 1:47 am
both sides are gorgeous and the couple is sweet 🙂
March 27th, 2014 at 8:20 am
Love it! Just my colors! Took a lot of work, I’m sure.
March 27th, 2014 at 9:27 am
Gold star, Sarah..he seems to be so happy with his very own, bright colored quilt..sweet photos…
March 28th, 2014 at 9:25 pm
It’s a knock out and I am so happy that they actually appreciate all of the work and color ! Well done, once again !
April 14th, 2014 at 10:04 pm
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