Hello Levi

 

"Hello Levi" - made for my sweet grandson born in February 2022

When darling Levi was born, Sam told me an amazing story about his birth, arriving at sunrise.  Welcome to the world sweet boy: 

That story gave me the idea to include a sunrise in his first quilt.  Yes, a child with a quilting grandma will have more than one quilt!  

I used a quarter circle pattern from "New York Beauties and Flying Geese" by Carl Hentsch to start the sunrise

and layout idea and letters from "Quilt Talk" by Sam Hunter.

This really speaks to having a well stocked craft space, with tools you know and can draw on as you need them. 

After paper piecing the first sunrise block, I drafted 4 other blocks to extend the sun ray lines.

With the center done, I wanted it a bit larger, So I created these wonky stars.   Here I was testing whether they would look ok. 

My son works in space science, so a star theme is appropriate. 

Also, I'm very happy with the way the sun rays look like one giant block, instead of the 4 it really is. This was accomplished by matching fabric across seams. 

 

Then I created the letters from Sam Hunter's book, pieced it all together and quilted it. 

The sun rays are quilted all the way through the stars, to the outer edge.  Then I overlayed large handwriting quilting over the pieced printed letters. 

And finally, a hand embroidered label to my darling Levi from Nana who loves him more than all the stars:

From start to finish, this was created in about 10 days.  (and I work full time ;-) 

Here I am, meeting my grandson for the first time.  💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Oh handsome boy.  I can hardly wait to see you again.  

I look forward to creating more quilts for you and maybe even with you!