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Play Quilt
I made this double sided play quilt for my grandson Toby when he was 5 months old. He is now 18 months old and is playing the matching games (see below) and is just starting to learn to count...colours next!!
In a rare diversion for me, I made this quilt with commercial fabrics as opposed to dyeing my own from scratch. I wanted it to be colourful with a lot of detailed interest, so this was the best option.
The quilt is about 1200mm square.
With the leftover bits from the fabric that I had used to make the centres of the log cabins I made 12 little soft toys, each with a rattle, bell or squeaker inside and filled with wadding.
Toby quickly learned to shake or squeeze these and learned to throw them indoors where nothing could get broken!
At 18 months he has started to match these to the pictures on the front of the quilt.
And on the other side...
I cut some letters, numbers and animals from coloured cotton fabric and appliqued them onto the quilt with free machine stitching
I had plenty of the plain fabric left over so I made some additional animals. I used Decovil 1 to stiffen them and put a different coloured fabric on each side.
Another matching game for Toby which he is learning fast!
And finally, with all the patterned scraps and the excess background and sashing fabric, I made a bag to keep the quilt in, with a pocket each side for the toys.
