Don's Manly Quilt - Finished!

After several years of gathering and making brown sampler blocks, I decided to sew them all together and get Don's quilt finished. It's been quilted and bound, and now he's using it!

Blocks for Don's Quilt

In my "Bee Obsessed" Flickr group, I had the month of September.  I decided that I would have the gals make blocks to go with the ones I'd already made for Don's "manly" quilt.  So I told them to use all shades of brown - and here are some I've received so far:

1st block from jgmehlin

2nd block from jgmehlin

1st block from RuthieQuilts

2nd block from RuthieQuilts

1st block from MarilynKB

2nd block from MarilynKB

1st block from CA Sharp

2nd block from CA Sharp

I think the first 6 will go perfectly with all the other ones I've made so far.  The 2 from CA Sharp will actually go better with the blocks I've been getting related to the outdoors theme.  They're all just lovely - and there will be more to come!

New Blocks for Don's "Manly" Quilt

I'm making good progress on Don's quilt. I've nicknamed it the "manly" quilt, since he requested "manly" colors. I also have decided that I'm going to find a good-sized fish to either appliqué or piece, and will use it as a center panel. He really likes that idea.

Pennsylvania Parade

Crockett Cabin

Arizona

Scrapbagger

Pick a Little

Lover's Knot

Ohio Star

Swing in the Center

Kentucky Patch

Tennessee block for Don's quilt

This is one of Marcia Hohn's designs from her website Quilter's Cache. Every once in a while I'll make a block and eventually I'll have enough for his quilt. These are 12" blocks, and I told Don I'd do his quilt in "manly" colors.

Indiana Puzzle Block

An interesting mix of four-patches and half-square triangles, this one was easy and quick.

Rocky Mountain Puzzle Block

During a visit to a quilt shop in Las Vegas (The Christmas Goose), I fell in love with a huge pack of brown, tan, and grey fat quarters. I've been wondering what I would do with them, and now I've made up my mind. On a couple of quilting sites I've found a large number of free 12" block patterns - and will use those nice browns to make a "manly" sampler quilt to put on my husband's bed some day. This is the first block - it's called Rocky Mountain Puzzle. One version I saw had it only two colors; another had 4 - which I decided to do. I've been making 6" blocks for so long that it was pretty strange making one that was 12".