Quilting

I have been wanting to make a quilt for my oldest son for a long time but had not been able to find fabric or a pattern that I liked.  He is a musician, a college senior double majoring in Performance (cello) and Music Theory and Composition.  I was looking for something musically themed but masculine.

In November, I was making the rounds of local quilt shops and found just what I had been looking for - beautiful, music themed fabric in red, black, gray, and white.  The quilt shop owner had made the fabric up into a quilt and posted the instructions here on her blog, so I bought the fabric and headed home.

Here are a few closeups of some of the fabrics - there are 10 different fabrics in all.

 The quilt consists of 5" squares of fabric alternating with 4 patches.  The construction is simple - the arrangement of the blocks is what makes the quilt so outstanding.

I wanted a bigger quilt than the instructions were for, so I made the finished blocks a bit larger and made more of them.  The finished quilt is 75" x 90".

Here is the finished product - the musician loves it!

P.S.  The musician's hands get cold when he practices, so my friend over at Applie's Place knitted these cool "non-phalanges" for him to wear.  He loves them, too!