Teddy Town Quilt

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This was intended as a baby quilt, but I didn't want to lose any of the fun fabrics, so it's more of a twin-size quilt. The letter squares on the outside are all 'professions' I'd got from a random pick mail-order clearance, so they repeat some letters and lack others, but they look awfully cute. The section of town in the middle was also a scrap bought the same way. The moral of the  story is, if you collect enough fabrics, eventually they'll form into a quilt all by themselves... well, you have to help a little bit. The binding is made from the teddies at the beach fabric on the bottom of the quilt.

This is the back, using the rest of the football teddy bear fabric. I like to make the backs out of prints whenever possible, because I like a quilt to be reversible (to save washing-- no, because I think it's more fun.) Besides, I tend to collect more prints than solid color muslin, so I don't really have much of the 'traditional' backing fabrics for quilts. I was quite pleased to discover that through sheer serendipity, one of the football phrases is 'Hut' and the child the quilt was made for is named 'Hutson'.

This is the cross-stitched label on the back of the quilt.. It's always nice to put a little history on the back, but if you haven't time for something fancy like this, there are also permanent fabric marking pens available.