Construction quilts for boys

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This Grader has been designed with boys who love machines in mind. It would make a great addition to your next quilt, especially one featuring earthwork or roadwork machinery, tractors or trucks. Once sewn this pattern will create a quilt block that is 12 inches high and 28 inches wide, meaning it should fit nicely with any quilt made using other 12" blocks and 4" sashing. The pattern is able to be scale photocopied to other sizes if required. This pattern is a completely paper pieced…

For my eldest great grandson's birthday, I decided to make him a quilt featuring the Caterpillar heavy hauler truck, construction quilt. Putting the Quilt Together I got a bit carried away with the borders and ended up with a quilt measuring 70' x 90', quite a large quilt for a young man. I keep telling myself that it will last him for a few years. The first thing was to trim up the panel. I decided to keep as much as possible of the black outer edge. I felt that keeping the black border…

For my great-grandson Heath's 3rd birthday, I made him this quilt made from construction machine panels. My daughter-in-law, Stacy, gave me a panel of construction vehicles. I already had another Construction vehicle panel that I was planning to make for one of my other great grandsons, Connor, and she thought I might like to make 2 quilts while I was on the go. At the time I didn't realize that she had actually given me two panels. When I got it home and had a look at it, not realizing that…

Our grandson, Neal, just turned two! He is smart and kind and beautiful, like his parents! And his loves TRUCKS!! Sooooo, he gots to have a truck quilt, right? I made his quilt from this pattern... and changed it up a bit, too, as ususal! I used Soft Fuse and machine appliqued the trucks onto the background fabric. And what is really cool about this quilt, is that it was all from my stash!! Well, OK, except for the backing... I did not have construction themed fabric in my stash! But I sure…

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