Start of the Character Quilt

Some of you might remember the mad hunt for all kinds of very specific fabric for a quilt based on interests of a good friend of mine.

I found some weird fabrics and gave up on some others. I thought long and hard how I wanted to frame my blocks. I settled on the black/grey fabric, my friend being a male and all. That decision almost turned out disastrous because I didn't have enough fabric and the store I bought it at is 4 hours away and only open during the week. Yikes!

So what started out as mixed width borders (to get wonky placements) from 2-4" was quickly trimmed down to 1/2 - 2" to salvage enough material to frame all blocks. I just managed, the last blocks are framed by pieced borders - oh well, he won't notice!


I had another photo showing more blocks, but it turned out so aweful on closer inspection, I'll have to take a better one. I'll blog about this quilt in more detail as I go along, it's on hold right now because inspiration struck...