Quilt #129 :: Theo's Milestone Quilt

We are t-minus 10 days from moving into the Lake house and t-minus 5 days of D's elementary school career. Lots of crazy going on around here. I'm checking lists of lists of lists to try to keep everything straight!

One pressing item is my list of quilts to finish in my current craft room before I settle into my new studio. I try not to look at it or the packing will never get done! 

Today I'm sharing a milestone quilt I made for a special couple. Six years ago, my nervous boy was warmly welcomed by his pre-K teacher Miss Anne.

This year, as a fourth grader, Miss Anne's husband Mr. Reiman is his principal. 

The first teacher quilt I ever made went to Miss Anne. It is an I Spy/Checkers quilt.

When their first child was born, I made Charlie's Choo Choo for him.

And now Charlie is a big brother. I had been wanting to make another milestone quilt because I have had a few requests for my original pattern. I was able to take some careful notes and will be looking for pattern testers once we are settled in the Lake House and I have caught my breath!

This is the third milestone quilt I've made. The first two also went to staff members at D's school. 

The original one went to D's dance teacher.

The second one went to a teacher of another hub (multi-age classroom). D's school is very small, so even though Mrs. Weaver didn't teach D directly, they know each other well. 

D's doll, Mark Watney, still pulls modeling duty when baby quilts are ready to be delivered. 

I'm still playing around with fabric placement. Each of the quilts I've made is slightly different, but I think I will include a coloring sheet with the pattern so quilters can decide how they want to vary the design.

This is a pretty easy quilt to put together, unless you are moving and renovating a new house at the same time! I wanted to make a version in shades of blue, and chose two directional prints (plus a directional backing). Nothing like to doing things the hard way.

Because I'm only working in small bits of time between everything else, I got my prints confused and ended up having to redo all my number blocks. Uff da!

Ultimately, it all came together, and baby Theo will have his quilt before his one month milestone. The idea for the quilt as I saw all the ways new parents showed their baby's monthly (or yearly) growth. I've seen monthly pictures with the same stuffed animals, with stickers or special onesies, with chalkboard and letter boards and all sorts of different ways. 

At the same time, I've seen lots of alphabet quilts, but number quilts aren't nearly as popular. Because Miss Anne is a preschool teacher, I love the idea of her having a quilt to teach numbers as well as to mark Theo's milestones. 

With the other two quilts, I made a taggy frame to indicate the milestone.

This time I decided to give a frame I found at Joann. 

Then I found this cute billboard with dry erase on one side and chalk board on the other.

And then, I was at Target and found this cute arrow...

...next to these adorable little socks!

So, I'm going to give them options!

As always, D slept with the quilt to make sure there was lots of extra love in it.

And finally, for the label, I couldn't resist using the precious photo of Theo as the background.

Updated: 

Isn't this the cutest?

Linked to:

Tuesday:

Colour & Inspiration Tuesday

To Do Tuesday @ Stitch All the Things

Wednesday:
Midweek Makers @ Quilt Fabrication
Wednesday Wait Loss @ The Inquiring Quilter
WIPs on Wednesday @ Esther's Blog

Thursday:
Needle & Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Friday:
Beauties Pagean @ From Bolt to Beauty
Finished or Not Friday @ Busy Hands Quilts
Off the Wall Friday @ Nina Marie
Whoop Whoop Friday @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Saturday:
UFO Busting @ The Madd Quilter

Sunday:

Oh Scrap! @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework

Monday:

Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

Main Crush Monday @ Cooking Up Quilts

Modern Patch Monday @ Modern Cologne Quilters

Monday Making @ Love Laugh Quilt

Moving It Forward @ Em's Scrap Bag

What I Made Monday @ Pretty Piney

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