Wild and Crazy

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!  It's wild around here this week.

For the last month or so, I have been working on a new naptime quilt for my four year old grandson, my Little Buddy.  I made the mistake (?) of letting him pick out the fabrics.  He picked EVERYTHING.

Lots of my fabrics are novelty prints, as you can see.  In this picture alone there are so many animals (cats, dogs, birds, cows, a monkey, sharks, turtles, bugs, and lots of dinosaurs).  There are book characters like Clifford and cartoons like Minions and an M&M.  There are also party hats, fire fighter hats, jelly beans, anchors, bandaids, and cupcakes.  To keep from having too many squares of any one print, I only used two of each fabric.  There are nearly 100 different fabrics in this twin sized top.  It's definitely wild.

Now for the crazy part.  I'm following a pattern called Chock Full O' Charms.  (Click HERE for my recent post with information on the pattern.)  First, you do the easy part--sew all the squares together.  Next, you cut the top into 3 pieces.  Yes, really.  Cue the music from the Psycho shower scene.  

Hey, look!  I followed the directions, and it came out okay!  I cut the quilt, and sewed it back together, and now the squares are magically on point.

I could never have done this right without the directions, even though I made a baby quilt from this pattern a couple of years ago.

Here's what the edge looks like.  Because the squares are cut in half, all the edges are bias, so I'm handling the top gently until I can get borders on it.  

For borders, I'm thinking a simple print to try to calm everything down.  And I'm NOT going to ask Little Buddy to pick a fabric.

In between sewing the nap quilt,  some green blocks got done for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I hope you are having as much fun as I am playing with green scraps.

Of course there had to be Green Bay Packer fabric somewhere!

The log cabins are fun to piece, as always.

I admit to doing a little fussy cutting.  Isn't this little girl cute in her bug costume?  She reminds me of my adorable granddaughter.

I don't have enough green scraps for two months, so I'm using whatever I have this month, and when light green is called I'll do something else.  That's what I like about the RSC--fun and flexible.

Wednesday is St. Patrick's Day, so I had to include the very last two squares of this Irish bird fabric.  I'm looking forward to homemade Irish stew and soda bread.  No green beer for me, thanks.

I'm wishing you a Happy St. Patrick's Day a little early, and a safe week ahead doing the things you love to do.  Sláinte mhaith!

Cheers,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

P.S.  I almost forgot the Buddy pictures!

Little Buddy is learning about the solar system in preschool.  He and Grandpa set up a series of sports balls plus a globe as an illustration.  He's balancing on the "sun" here.  Little Buddy is still sad that Pluto isn't a planet anymore.

And here are two more of my favorite guys.  Grandpa is wearing overalls to match Baby Buddy.

Have a great week!