Peace Sign Quilt

My 9 year old daughter is a hippie at heart. She was definately born in the wrong era. She's very into peace signs right now and she asked if I could make a peace sign for her comforter.

She and I took a trip to the fabric store, where she picked out these colors:

We chose to go with quarter flats. Once we got home I measured the comforter and then using large pieces of paper I created a pattern of the peace sign and then measured out the quilt blocks.

After all the fabric was cut into squares, we started placing them around the peace sign pattern till we felt the look was just right.

Once my daughter gave her seal of approval, I began quilting this sucker together. And let me tell you...it was not as easy as I had invisioned in my mind. After a few days of quilting and ironing, I finally got to lay it out of the comforter. From there I pinned and repinned until it lay perfect.

And then came the hard part! Sewing the quilted peace sign to the comforter...a FULL size comforter. It was awkward and frustrating at times to get throught the sewing machine and also to sewing in circles.

But...in the end, it was all worth it. My daughter was thrilled and that's all that matters.

I even had enough squares left over to make a quilted pillow to add to her bed. I quilted the front and used a quarter flat for the back. Then we bought a pillow from IKEA to use inside, so I didn't have to stuff it.