This boy and his momma made a quilt:
He made all the different shaped doggy squares.
You can see this boy was a tiny bit younger when this project he began:
I put them together:
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I always take another quilt of the desired size and lay it on my bed. Then I arrange the squares on top. It's my small-house version of a design board. Simeon had a big say in the design process here. After arranging them, I cut and pieced in the brown negative space, or sashing. A lot of up and down from my machine to the ironing board, then to my bedroom, and back....
You can read more about our process here.
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The back of the quilt is simple.
A dog house on two of the corners,
One for Beau and one for Maddie,
was sweetly insisted upon by this boy
who misses his doggies so:
for once upon a time,
buddies they were:
