Man Quilts In Progress

Today's post is a work in progress on my "Man Quilts."  This little project has taken on a life of its own.  It started out with I believe 6 patterns of gray and black for me (I wanted a quilt, but every color I suggested to the wife she turned her nose at as not manly). So it seems that black and gray is manly.  While I decided that I bought enough material to make 2 quilts (Lap Quilts) you know that 2 is always better then one.   So I started cutting.  Originally I had a gray back that had roses on it (Yes again wife said not manly enough) and she re-commissioned that to the back of Hearts and Flowers 2. Hum just realized I did not take a picture of the back of this quilt or H&F2 well I need to stat taking pictures of both sides I think.  Any way back to the man quilt.  I have a friend Doug who I want to make a quilt for so added him to the list of people, o quilt for.  He was over and of course shook his head at me cause men are not suppose to quilt he says.   Any way showed him my original black colors (before telling him why I was showing him) and he rejected 4 of 6 saying they were not manly enough.  So we went shopping and bought 4 more colors in Paisley since that in his mind is manly enough..  The gray and the back white one in picture above is the only 2 he approved.  Once I get closer to done I will take a better close up so you can see some of the prints.  Any way I am now sewing, had 2 conveyor belts done (as my son calls them) when I took the top picture.  I now have 12 rows ( conveyor ) and have sewn 6 together.  This is today's (ok Sunday - Tuesdays) project.  Any way this project will be on going, as I now have I think 12-13 materials and added a number of people onto the list of who gets them so each will be unique in some way.  Oh on a note, gray Tie-Dye ended up manly enough for the back.

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Cutting Day!

Today was a day of cutting.  It started with the material for my manly lap blankets.  The plan is to make my brother, and brother-in-laws, and one of my friends, Each a  a lap blanket.   My wife and I previously picked out 5 different gray and or black patterned material (none of the ones listed here)  when my friend was over the other day I showed him the squares I had cut, sewn X's though (making rag quilts).  Not telling him one was for him and he told me that they were not Manly enough material for him and told us 2 of the 5 was ok.  We explained to him what the plan was and he explained that we needed some paisley type materials if I was going to make one for him. That by the way is what instigated the last Saturday's  terrible shopping trip with too many people at the cut table.  Any way the 4 new materials are above (and below) those in black, gray and now a red (which was terribly expensive compared to the others.  I have not yet figured out how many quilts I plan to make but the number is some where in the 4-5 range assuming I get one.  So I spent tonight cutting and cutting.  When done cutting my wife started to pin the backs (already cut) and batting to the front so I can Friday sew the cross stitches in them.  Not sure the scope of the full project, but when done it will be amazing.

When I quilt I tend to watch TV  I am a Junkie for the TV so much so that I created a website to track my TV watching. http://trackmyshows.com (not sure If I said it already but I am a computer programmer) It is a free by the way if interested in tracking your own obsession.  Any way more to the point yesterday while watching TV and cutting (oh ya did some cutting yesterday too) I nicked my finger.  I have realized that It is dangerous to watch TV and use my razor knife.  Which brings up my last photo of the day.  I will leave the photo but will be another day before I explain it.  What are your thoughts.

Rebecca cutting material for her quilt, nice cutting gloves.