Blustery Day Quilt

 I have a soft place in my heart for Winnie the Pooh. I am a huge fan of this wise little bear and a Winnie the Pooh quilt has been long overdue.

I've hunted Pooh fabric for a long time, but this was my favorite as it most closely resembled my memories of these beloved characters.

We didn't let the chiddlers watch much television when they were small, but I do remember buying 8 tracks of a Winnie the Pooh series and apparently we watched them enough that I learned all the voices because when we read the books we had, aloud, I was able to mimic the characters. I had forgotten that until the chiddlers reminded me. Sadly, I have lost that ability, but I have not lost my love for this cast of characters.

This fabric has been in a bin for some time and I finally decided to dig in and make a Pooh quilt. I fussy cut the scenes into 5" squares and was able to get 25. I would have liked to make the quilt bigger, but 5" squares seemed to be the best size for focusing on the characters.

I decided to use a pattern I designed 8 or 9 years ago. The alternating blocks are a 2 different quarter square triangles blocks so I started with 6 1/4" squares. I'm documenting the details here because I know I will be making this design again and it will be easier for me to reference this post when I do.

6 blue

8 yellow

10 green

Those became hsts;

4 blue/yellow

8 blue/green

12 yellow/green

Then I made 2 different combinations of quarter square triangles 

16 of the left

8 of the right

 

This is a simple quilt. The hardest part is making sure the orientation of the quarter square triangles is correct in order to insure this design. It finished at 46" x 46" .

I added a 6" border and a minky backing

 Jackie's perfect blustery quilting, and blue binding were the perfect finishing touches

I do wish I had used a softer blue and even a softer green, but it's what I had in my stash and I'm happy with the finished quilt

I don't know if I made this for grandbabies or for myself..maybe a little of both. 😉