This is what the backside looks like.I shopped around for comforters and couldn't find anything that I liked. I wanted a generic pattern (no sports theme, no trucks, no characters). I wanted them to last 10 years and since we are going to bunk the beds next month I wanted them to match. So I decided to make them instead.
The pattern I chose ended up being a difficult one and I didn't fully realize how difficult it was until after all the squares and rectangles were cut and experienced quilters told me I was crazy. I am the opposite of experienced, but I had some serious determination after I spent so much money on the fabric and a ton of time cutting it all out. So on I chugged. I took all my cut fabric to Boise to work on over Christmas break and when I showed it to my aunt she laughed in my face betting I'd never finish it (insert increased determination). There are no littler patterns or squares to sew into bigger squares. You have to sew each piece adding it to the whole one by one, to give reference to those who have done things like this before, and the rectangles are not all the same direction so you have to leave edges unsewn until the piece underneath on the next row is added. It's a little confusing.
I sewed every spare minute I had. We put them on quilt frames and hand quilted them from sun up to sun down for a week and a half. My mom stayed up all night the last day I was there to sew the edges. I went home with two completed quilts. It's been three weeks and my finger tips are still raw and sore from hand quilting them. I am glad they are done and I probably will never do it again. :)
