My grand-nephew Conor’s second birthday was Saturday. I had quilted a bed-size alphabet panel for his baby brother as a Christmas present, and Conor has been wanting one since. I’ve mentioned Patternjam in the past after seeing their vendor booth at the International Quilt Festival in Houston last year. I bought a twin-size bed panel 56″ x 83″ based on the book “I Love You to the Moon and Back,” a touching bedtime story for children. Conor’s dad who is my nephew Nick had mentioned he was tired of reading the same books over and over. As a book-loving person since childhood and a big reader myself, I want to encourage Conor to be the same. Needless to say, copy of the book was part of the gift. I quilted the top in an organic edge-to-edge pattern. The printed panel has a slightly different hand than regular quilting cotton, but it quilted beautifully. I washed it beforehand, and it was colorfast. Overall, I can recommend Patternjam’s products.
Here’s my partner Mike, the only person I know tall enough to hold the finished quilt up. Notice that Patternjam will print the recipient’s name on the panel. Now Conor can call it his.
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Conor’s quilt, “I Love You to the Moon and Back”
We celebrated the birthday at St. Cupcake, downtown Portland. Here’s the birthday boy with the tray of mini-cupcakes in front of him.
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Conor
He licked the frosting of around seven cupcakes with no interest in eating any of the cake. I’m the opposite. I can leave the frosting, but I love cake.
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Conor, his dad Nick, and granddad, Jim
I can’t leave out Conor’s mother and little brother, Samantha and Tadhg, who was enamored with chewing on a coffee cup sleeve. He’s teething.
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Samantha and Tadhg
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Tadhg, playing with his tongue