The last quilt I finished in 2009, this one was completed on December 30, and was a late Christmas present for my oldest son, nineteen and about to move into his first bachelor pad. I called it "He's a Man Now"
this quilt went through a lot of iterations. Immediately after I made my first quilt, I was shopping the Garment District of our city and came across these African wax cottons in three prints of beiges, gold and black. I thought they would be perfect to make a "manly" quilt for oldest son's 18th birthday, which was about 9 months away. So I bought them, cut them to a pattern I had in mind, and then was distracted by working on my first commission quilt, which I posted about here before, called "
Saucy Divo".
When I went back to the quilt a couple of months later, I couldn't figure out what the heck my plan had been with all those triangles and squares, so I went out and bought some more of the fabric (I ended up buying all that the seller had left) came up with another plan and then, a little afraid of wrecking it, I put it aside for awhile.
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