I have updated my grandson's quilt to accommodate how much he has grown in the last few years. You can see the original quilt
here. I added a row of cat squares in the same manner I had included the cats originally. I had discussed with him what he would prefer in regards to colours, etc. He had asked for blue red fabric, cyan and gold stars. I was able to deliver all he asked for. I had set aside the fabrics a while ago and with his birthday coming up quickly I decided to see if I could get the expansion done in time for our visit for his birthday. It took longer than I expected to get it done because I was inventing the process as I went along. I removed the binding and then added the two panels on the sides - front, batting and backing. I stitched the cyan squares to both end pieces and then added batting and backing to them. I added quilting lines to the four red blue pieces then added the binding. It was too short but fortunately I had leftover of that orange fabric and was able to add enough to bind this larger quilt. I added the gold stars to the cyan squares by machine stitching the edges with a decorative stitch. I added another row of stitching on the cyan squares all around the squares. I gave it a wash and then cut all the thread ends and removed the threads leftover from the original binding. It finished up over 60" wide and 100" long. It will cover his bed in much better fashion now!!! He was very happy with the colours and the size. It went straight to his bed. Therese
