A Quilt for a Guy

I'm not aware of any particular quilts I ever saw my mother or the church ladies make specifically for men.  Usually the quilts for men involve their wives too, so, it just never came across my mind.

However, I have grandsons who are grown, single and need quilts--well, I need to make them quilts, anyway.  So, even though I'm pretty sure they'll have mates at some point, these are going to be made specifically for the grandsons.

It's more difficult than you might think.

At any rate, this is what I started with (for the oldest grandson, of course):

I made another for one of my daughters in orange and white.  I think if I make this one in black and white with some red (the next grandson's color choices), it will work.  What do you think?  The red comes in where the yellow is on this quilt.  Also, the grandson's will be larger.

I think it'll be great!  I'm starting the cutting on this one today--after I teach a class in machine piecing (I don't know how I ended up teaching a class on any facet of quiltmaking, but, well, there you have it.)

I guess I'll wait until the next grandson returns from South America before I make his, so I'm skipping to the next one after him.  It'll be similar to the red/black above.  I have the pattern for the one after him and I have his color choices, so that'll be next.

Actually, I woke up last night with the pattern in my head for my oldest daughter's quilt.  It's going to be beautiful, but it'll be a while before I can start--I may move her to the head of the line and work two quilts at the same time, though, because I can hardly wait to see how it's going to turn out.  She'll love it, I think.

That's all I have today.