Black and white and read all over

Black and white and read all over

44 by 44 inches

Machine and hand quilted

I'm finally releasing this quilt to the universe

since I'm passing on this quilt to its new owner

who was born a month ago.

He's the third child of a my photo journalist colleague,

so I decided to make an I Spy quilt with some newspaper and text images.

I'm hoping baby's older brother and sister will have fun

"reading" this quilt to him.

I've included a telephone, some newspaper prints,

lots of word fabrics,

and some camera prints,

as well as anything else in the black and neutral colour scheme I had on hand.

Here's a film print, referring back to the days 

when photographers used film instead of digital.

I used black and white prints on the back,

including a significant chunk of that camera print.

I machine quilted on both sides of the blocks,

and hand quilted around a motif or design in each block.

Here's a straight on shot of the top before it was quilted.

The baby's first and last initials are A. A.,

so I included those in the piano key boarder.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and TGIFF

and Crazy Mom Quilts