Aiden Designed It.

I was playing with my seven year old grandson in my sewing room when he decided he needed a new blanket. He started going through my boxes of fabric and with a little editing from Grandma we came up with some fabric for his new blanket. I cut the fabric into 8 1/2" squares and let him "design" his own quilt on the design wall. Here is the result:

I faithfully sewed things together in the order he had them on the design wall.  That was it for Saturday.  Sunday morning I pin basted the quilt using some Fairfield 80/20 batting and some DS picnic fabric for the backing.  He wanted to put decorative stitches through the center of each block.  I let him pick.  My Singer has lots of decorative stitches to choose from.  Some work better on three layers of fabric than others.  It is all his quilt though.  I used leftover fabric for binding.

Here is the final result.

The only thing his Mom had to say was:  "Nice colors" and "You used a lot of different stitches".  She did like her blue hexagon pillow though.  My grandson and I had a great time and it is all his quilt from choosing fabric through the quilting.