It all started when I found out I was pregnant with another boy to my new husband. I already have two sons now 16 and 12 , but it was lovely to have another. I remember some peter rabbit outfits from when my eldest was a baby. As an avid bargain hunter, I noticed a finished cross stich at salvation army as well as the patterns for other cross stiches. They were all Peter Rabbit charaters. Unbelievably, more patterns came in over the next few weeks as well as the material, threads etc for other unrelated cross stiches, so very quickly i had several peter rabbit cross sitches. but what to do with them ???? We had already decided on a jungle theme for the nursery and wall hanging are dust collector anyway, so i hit upon the idea of stitching them together, and even though I have never made a quilt before, i sew a lot.
Anyhow, having had lots of fun driving material shops crazy buying 20 cm of lots of things as well as the ever reliable "thrift" shops, here's my effort.
The rectangular shape and size for each piece was dictated by the portrait shape of the cross stitch but this easily got me to a cot quilt of the correct dimensions.
I used wide blue ribbon to edge it to keep in the baby boy theme. The flower girl material I had left over from making their dresses is incorporated, and I used other printed peter rabbit material to make up more blocks
