Fabrics and batting

Mom and I purchased the batting, linen and background material for the quilt. So far, in making these quilts, I have come to the conclusion that the proper background material will present itself and you'll know it when you see it. For this quilt, it didn't seem like that was going to be the case. We spent a bit of time searching JoAnn's fabrics looking for the perfect background. We found adorable paw print fabrics, but would that be appropriate and represent Boswell enough? There was a baseball print, but I remember Jeff saying he didn't really watch a lot of baseball, at least not until he spent so much time at the hospital with Bella.... We were scanning the shelves for something that had fire engines or maybe just a nice red fabric to off set a red fire engine that is put in a square? At first all we came across were fabrics with large prints of fire engines. There was also one fabric that had scantily clad firemen with pick axes and hoses. I thought that was funny, but probably more appropriate for Jen than a baby. We finally found checked blue fabric with little vehicles printed on it! It included sailboats, fire engines, trains, planes, and cars. Perhaps a little more stereotypically boy than I would have liked, but a very very cute fabric, and the one for this quilt!