As a Mom of a toddler, I know and love The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I've read it approximately 1,000,000 times to my little one. So when I saw the quilt featured in Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine, I was thrilled. I was even more thrilled to see that there was a kit!
The top went together very quickly - it's really just a center panel and three borders. I pieced a backing for it, and it just sat. And sat. It's been an embarrassing number of months that it's stayed that way and I think it's because a) I'm not sure now that this is the first non-baby quilt I want to make for my daughter, and b) I detest basting.
The answer to a) may be to give it to someone else - for example, G's best friend Z whose birthday is coming up in March. The answer to b) is that I just have to suck it up.
I have that fabric in my stash! It is loitering. For little quilts like this you could try fusible batting - eliminates the need for batting!
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