Gilbert's Quilt

Gilbert's Quilt

Nathaniel, my nephew, and his wife, Susie, were having a baby, and they decided not to find out the sex of it. So my dilemma was--what color to make the baby quilt? I chose brown and aqua, so it could be either a boy or a girl quilt. 

Pat Speth's quilts fascinated me, so I tried one of her patterns, Chesapeake, only I didn't use charm squares, instead used strips of fabric and Thangles. I cut the strips 2 3/4 inches and used 2 1/4 inch Thangles to make the half square triangles in this quilt. It has 24 brown and 24 aqua blocks. As you can see, it is larger than a baby quilt, more of a crib sized quilt.

So they had a boy, pictured here at nine months with his quilt. Isn't he a cutie?