Keegan's Flannel Quilt

One of the ladies at the Sew N Sew group, DeAnne, has an aunt that can no longer quilt due to back issues.  Iretta was looking for a good home for her fabric.  I said I would take her treasures.  The boys and I went to Iretta's house and brought 23 new boxes of treasures to our house.  Iretta is a really good organizer;  all of the boxes are labeled and contain what the label states.

Keegan had been mentioning that he wanted to quilt every time I was quilting.  I hadn't been letting him quilt because I wanted a specific pattern on the quilts I was working on.  We decided to make a quilt, using Iretta's flannel, for Keegan's Grandma, Connie.  We went through the flannel.  I had 2 fabrics selected.  Keegan wasn't happy with two colors.  He picked more colors.  He added a lot of variety to the pile.

Keegan helped me draw and decide on a pattern we would use to make Connie's quilt.  Keegan and Dillon also "helped" sew.  They sat on my lap, pressed buttons on the sewing machine, played with the pins, and pushed the go pedal on the sewing machine.

I lined up 5 chairs in front of the quilting machine so Keegan could walk the machine across the quilt.  Keegan did all of the quilting.  I had to keep after Keegan to finish the quilt because I over-committed us and made a big quilt.  But Keegan finished it.  I thought he would no longer be interested in quilting after that much quilting but Keegan was asking to quilt again on the next project I did.  Dillon also held onto the machine while I re-threaded the machine and got it started.

Keegan also selected the thread for the quilting.  Keegan says his favorite color is purple.  He picked purple thread.  I tried to steer Keegan to pink thread.  But he wanted purple.  That is that.  There is purple thread on this quilt.

Keegan presented this quilt to his Grandma Connie when we went to Butte to visit before Christmas.  He just handed it to his grandma.  Then he raced off to play with the toys that are at their house because those toys are new and exciting.

Timing is important for kids at age 3.  We started working on this quilt when we first brought the fabric home.  Keegan finished quilting it the beginning of December.  I put the binding on this quilt the night before we were headed to Butte (the weekend before Christmas).  When I was taking pictures of it the day we left, Keegan said, "That was a long time ago."  So, by the time he gave it to Grandma Connie, it had been in the works for a month.  Most of that month it had been in this pile or that waiting for the next step.  Keegan had lost interest with that much time passing.