Twin quilts - a pair of finished quilts

The twin quilts my neighbors commissioned from me are finished and I think might already be on the way to their new owners.

The brief was to make twin quilts that are the same but different. So I used the same fabric (almost all from the 1st Cotton & Steel collection) but arranged them a little different for each quilt and my customer wanted the name of each of the girls embroidered on them. I think this is a really nice touch and will make them special for the little girls.

I quite enjoyed making these two little beauties and quilted with variegated threads  along the seam lines and added a few in between.

I love this colour combination with the pinks and yellows/mustard thrown in between. The dark blues add contrast and focus.

I added a spotty binding to each of them but again differentiated here and chose a yellow and a turquoise one.

The backs are solids with a little pieced strip of left over fabric to compliment the fronts.

So cute....

Did you see the pair of pink panthers ?

Normally I would say in the header something along the lines of 'Pink Panther - a finished quilt' but I can't really do that because I finished two Pink Panther quilts !

Number one:

and number two:

So this is what happened. You know when I said in my last post that I had a huge pile of the blocks. Well huge doesn't really cut it. I started laying them out and realised that this was not gonna be a little baby quilt but either a small single or God knows what. So I simple decided to make two baby quilts which would be great for twins !

I can't tell you how much fun I had making these quilts. It was so liberating using all these fabric almost at random and even more so adding from my stash. In actual fact this was my first "foray" into scrap territory which in the past I have studiously avoided because I have never seen the attraction to handle a loat of scrap pieces. I was wrong; this is fun !

I quilted one of the pair in double diagonals and one in double square lines. Each uses a print from Aneela Hoey's very first fabric line 'Sherbet Pips' for the backing. This works perfectly as the collection itself features pink rather liberally.

There are so many pieces in these two quilts that I love. There are the balloons and the dress from 'Children at Play', there is some 'Far Far away' in there and would you believe it some Liberty tana lawn too, lots of strips and dots and little animals, text prints and chevron.....

The quilts are 42" x 36" and can be found under this listing in my Etsy shop. So what do you think are the chances somebody buys them for twin boys...... :-)