One of my best friends from college has a baby exactly 12 weeks older than mine. While we were pregnant, I offered to make a quilt for her baby, and asked if she and her husband had any theme or color requests. They asked for a dinosaur quilt with blues, greens, and yellows, but no purple.
I immediately started searching the internet, and found these amazing
paper-pieced dinosaur blocks. Robert helped me choose three of the blocks, and I just bought those three patterns individually rather than the whole bundle. All three of these dinosaurs - the pteranodon, velociraptor, and triceratops - are from the cretaceous era. Since my friend is a scientist, we didn't want to send her baby a quilt that mixed dinosaurs from different eras (hence the scientific integrity).
I used some scraps from my stash and supplemented with some fabric from my local quilt shop. It turns out the owner of the shop really likes dinosaur novelty fabric, so she had a great selection for me to choose from, and was very excited to hear about the dinosaur baby quilt!
The quilt is large for a baby quilt - if I'm remembering right, it finished at about 42" x 52". The patchwork squares are 3" finished, and I had half a yard of the dino fossil fabric in the horizontal stripes. I quilted a diagonal grid in the patchwork and dinosaur sections and parallel horizontal lines in the fossil stripes. By the time I was done with the piecing, I wanted to quilt in a way that would be relatively easy and not detract from the dinos.
I'm thrilled with how this quilt turned out, and my friend and her husband were, too!
