I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Over the weekend, I started a new I-spy quilt. This one will be for my youngest daughter, who at 2 and a half years old is quickly outgrowing her baby quilts. When I see her quilts just barely covering the length of her body, I realize that she’s not a baby anymore!
All this means, it’s time for a new quilt. I decided to go with an I-spy quilt as it is a great way to introduce kids to new words and ideas.
For example, in just this image of the bumble bee, there are lots of new vocabulary that a child could learn: bumble bee, bandana, antennae, stinger, apron, wings, stripes, hexagon, and honeycomb. Do you see any more? This one little square has at least 9 words. Can you imagine all the potential new words that are in an entire quilt of images like this one? It boggles my mind!
This is the same color scheme I used for my Modern Patchwork table runner. Let’s see how well it works for a kid’s quilt!
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Such a great way to develop vocabulary! I love that little nanny bee print 🙂
So cute! Great colours and sweet prints!
I have a feeling it'll be a great kid quilt!
Love the prints you have there, I'm sure it will be a great hit! Of course the great thing with kids that age is that they'll keep on growing for years, so you can make more and more quilts to fit :oD
Love the idea and the use of borders around your fussy cut blocks to keep it looking pretty. I've always loved the concept of i spy quilts but when you throw a bunch of totally dissimilar prints together I think it looks like a hot mess. This way is much better!
What fun Nicole! Love how your blocks are looking.
This is different way of doing an Ispy quilt love it.
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