I finished this one up. This quilt is for my son-in-law who is in the Air Force.

I did some browsing through a couple of websites of free patterns from fabric companies! A few of them have a lot of patterns - and I mean, a LOT.

This one is from Henry Glass and can be found here. I appreciate it that they are giving the pattern to us!

I decided to keep it simple with this one, once again. I did that because while my SIL would appreciate anything I did, I still felt like the fabrics are what is most important and not necessarily the design and certainly not the quilting.

However, that being said, I really do like this one I chose. It is written to be an I Spy Quilt - using fabrics in big chunks, - which I sometimes find myself doing because I love the fabrics and the prints on them!

When it came to quilting, I was a bit stumped. I thought at first I might just quilt it straight lines straight down.

Then, when it came to it, I didn’t. I stitched in the ditch as best as I could and then on top of the planes, I did some squares.

When I did those, I first drew a square with a Crayola washable magic marker and used a 4.5” square ruler. Then, I went around the inside of that square using the foot of my walking foot and setting my needle to the farthest side as I can so that my seam allowance was the widest it will go.

I think you can see pretty well here - the quilting, that is. This is after a wash.

I’d imagine that many people would begin doing some free motion quilting after they finish all the stitch in the ditch. However, I figured that was it - enough. I didn’t think I needed to make it all fancy. This is a man - not a lady who wants all kinds of fancy stitches.

Here’s a close up of the fabrics and possibly the quilting - if you can see.

The quilt roll:

It’s all very flat. I’m starting to really like using this cotton batting. Have I mentioned that before?

I think I have. I just need to find a local source that would be affordable to use regularly. I’m not spending $50+ per quilt for the batting just to be able to use cotton (poly is very inexpensive here)!

My daughter told me that her husband liked dinosaurs. “Dinosaurs?" I said incredulously. “Really?” “Yes, mom, he does. He really does.”

So I brought some dinosaur fabric to try to incorporate into the quilt. I still think it is a bit humorous. An Air Force officer ‘s quilt- with dinosaurs on the back. And in reality - it’s no more crazy than a sport fabric, is it? But it’s okay. :) I guess I have never thought about grown up men as having much of an opinion about dinosaurs at all (except may scientists who study them).

I ended up using it on the back. You can see here that I didn’t have quite enough so I just pieced the back to make it work. The fabric is amazing. It’s here if you want to get some for yourself!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Thanks so much for coming along on my journey with me!

Stay safe!

Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store here!

Here’s one of the beauties we have!

Air Force Quilt