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My last post about the Matisse’s Seaweed quilt<\/a> reminded me about some super-simple tropical quilts I made a few years ago. Inspired by the high-end versions at Pottery Barn Kids<\/a>, we chose a bunch of coordinating tropical and shirting fabrics (from the fabric store, my stash and even some cut-up clothes), cut them into 8″ squares and sewed them together. <\/p>\n It’s a really basic quilt (I’m not entirely sure the machine sewing-in-the-ditch stitching I did to hold the layers together even technically counts as quilting, although I love that term), and I am definitely not precise or patient enough to make it perfect, but I like the way they turned out, they came together quickly and the kids were pleased to get to pick their own fabrics.<\/p>\n My last post about the Matisse’s Seaweed quilt reminded me about some super-simple tropical quilts I made a few years ago. Inspired by the high-end versions at Pottery Barn Kids, we chose a bunch of coordinating tropical and shirting fabrics (from the fabric store, my stash and even some cut-up clothes), cut them into 8″ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[93,13,92,94],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","tag-crafts","tag-fabric","tag-quilt","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tropical](\"http:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/quilt-hawaiian21-2014-0711-web.jpg\")
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