18 two of a kind.

I flew through these two quilts last week, just in time to gift them to two of my friends who are having baby boys very soon.  The girls are sisters-in-law and they're both due with their first child within a few days of each other.  How fun is that?  These little cousins were destined to have matching quilts!

I had planned on just doing simple patchwork, but somehow made my squares way too small!  Apparently I forgot to look back at my measurements to see how big I should make the squares before I started cutting.  I didn't have much of a few of the fabrics left so I had to figure out another way to bring the quilts up to size. I had seen this quilt by Kelly and must have filed it away in my head, so the idea of an off centered rectangle was the first thing I thought of.  This gray Lisette chambray from JoAnn was the perfect fabric to use for the front!

I quilted both of the quilts the same, through the diagonal of each patchwork square, and then with intersecting straight lines which created a grid where the lines overlapped.  It looked really cool when it was finished, although it was definitely tedious while I was quilting!

It's bound in another Running Stitch print from Patty Young's Lush collection.  I love the way the orange looks as a frame around all the gray.

I had a lot of yardage of this green dot I bought a JoAnn forever ago, so I decided to use it up as the backing of each quilt.

Overall I was pretty happy with how these turned out, considering I only had a little over a week to put them together!

I can't wait to see the two little guys all wrapped up in their matching quilts soon!