A blanket for Easton

Last winter, Elizabeth showed me this quilt that she wanted to make (no, this isn't the one that I made for her, I wish i could come up with something so cute).  She told me that she had hunted down most of the exact fabric and was planning on making this.  So I hunted down the safari fabric and made . . . .

this not-nearly-as-cute blanket and toy block. 

But it is soft and coordinates, which is what I was going for. I found the tutorial for the block here. Minki is not easy to work with, or so I discovered. It stretches and it is very slippery. And I will not be using stretchy fabrics for the blocks anymore because when you stuff it, it stretches and stretches so that it looks more like a ball than a block. I'm going to send the block anyway and maybe their dog will find a use for it. :) The block really looks that bad. Oh well.

To make this blanket, I sewed the rights sides together, flipped it right side out, top stitched around the edges (which also closes the opening) and quilted a square in the middle so that it wouldn't pull apart. It would have been super easy but for the problems with the minki. But I learned something new as I usually do.