Mommy, Mommy, See What I Made!

When I was in first grade I remember making this little book for the parent open-house at school.  Each page had the same little poem on it, each time starting with a different family member - Mommy, Mommy, see what I made!  Mommy, Mommy, I like first grade! -  and then a space below it for a drawing or writing sample or something that I supposedly learned in first grade.

Here's my 30-year-old version.

*ahem*

Check this shit out people!  I made a damn QUILT!

It measures about 75x75, or just a hair smaller than a queen-sized coverlet.  I hand-tied it rather than quilting it (Seriously?  Hand-quilting a queen-sized blanket?  On my first time making one?  I don't think so.) and used cute little felt buttons at the corners.

Some of the fabrics have sentimental value too. 

The pink gingham used to be curtains used in my nursery that my mom saved.  The white with tulips is scraps from my first-day-of-Kindergarten dress, and the plaid is also scraps from a dress Mom made for me.  

The purple paisley is from a shirt she made when I was in college, and the white with blue flowers is a sheet I bought at the thrift store that I remember having when I was growing up.  The rest is stuff I bought at Joann's to match.

The pattern is called "Map of the States" and I got it from Oh, Fransson!'s website.  It was pretty easy, and good for smaller scraps of fabric like what I had.  I had actually started making a plain patchwork quilt from these child-hood fabrics back in eighth grade home-ec, but didn't finish it.  Which is a good thing, because I couldn't sew a straight line to save my life!  So I took that apart first, then used smaller scraps later.  The plan was to keep making blocks until I was out of one of the fabrics, but when I started laying it out and realized how huge it was already going to be... yeah.  I figured this was a good start!