{"id":313,"date":"2009-08-15T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2022-11-04T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:33:09","slug":"i-spy-quilt-inspires-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/i-spy-quilt-inspires-delight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Spy Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.<\/em><\/strong> Author Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

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Just before his third birthday, Robert became enamored of the I Spy books he checked out of the library. With this in mind, I decided an I Spy quilt would be a great gift for his birthday.<\/p>\n

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Robert spies his quilt.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Robert was so pleased with his I Spy quilt. After he opened the package, the other children were quite intrigued and began examining the items in each square. Feeling a little overwhelmed by the festivities and his guests’ enthusiastic manhandling of his special quilt, Robert announced that he was going to take a rest. And please would Nana come with him.<\/p>\n

With one hand he grabbed a corner of the quilt and with the other he took my hand. We went to his room and snuggled a little while before he was ready to face the bedlam that attends 3 year-old birthday parties. Ahhh…Nana heaven!<\/p>\n

The borders are 4\u00bd”\u009d wide and cut from yellow gingham. I had planned to make them 5″ but then realized that my backing would not be wide enough for the finished top. I had to piece the long border sides and put black rick rack over the join.<\/p>\n

In the center of each long side I put the magnifying glass with I SPY text on either side. On the short sides, I centered the I Spy text and put the magnifying glass on each side. Knowing that my border would have a \u00bd” seam allowance and the quilt top had just \u00bc , I scooted the embroidery closer to the edge that would be joined to the quilt top, rather than centering it in the 4\u00bd” width.<\/p>\n

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The I SPY text is black ultrasuede appliqued in place with the open letter alphabet from Brother’s PE-Design software. I simply embroidered the text over the ultrasuede and then trimmed close to the straight stitch. I hated having to buy the magnifying glass design but after spending way too much time looking for a free one, I got it at embroidery.com<\/a> for $6.95.<\/p>\n

After doing the embroidery, a few more short sections of rick rack were added just for interest. I had rick rack in\u00c2\u00a0 both jumbo and medium sizes, but not enough of either to do the entire quilt. So I mixed and used them indiscriminately. I like a scrappy look so it suited me.<\/p>\n

Four 4 \u00bd” blocks were cut for the corners and joined to the borders. Finally, the borders were joined to the quilt top.<\/p>\n

For backing I used a cute piece of Michael Miller fabric that was just exactly wide enough at 45″\u009d.<\/p>\n

This fun project was easier because I was able to buy a package of 200 I Spy charm squares, rotary cut to size. Several more were added to my stash, as some of the purchased squares were just too feminine for my grandson.<\/p>\n

I really did enjoy making this. The smile on Robert’s sweet face was all the reward I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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