Chugging Along Quilt

I am happy to say that it has been quite a productive week--and I've even started running again (after a two month hiatus due to a minor injury, colds and winterness) and have kept up with cooking and cleaning (well mostly, haha).

The colors and quilted details are based off of the Durango-Silverton train--my son's favorite.

I finished up this little train mini quilt (and my son helped quite a bit).  The quilt block patterns are called Chugging Along from ipatchnquilt.  I was a pattern tester (the pattern should be available soon), and my son just loooves this train!  If I had more time and enough of that yellow fabric I would have made more blocks. 

I wish I'd added more sky fabric so there could be more smoke!

Also wish I'd thought of fussy cutting some cute people to put in the windows.

My son loves to help with the binding--he picks all sorts of crazy decorative stitches!

I used almost entirely Aurifil thread--the only color of Aurifil I didn't have for this quilt is red, so I used some other thread I had on hand.

Colors from left to right: 2000, 1135, 1147, (the cone is 2605), 5005, and 2692.

 My son picked out the back fabric (which I had forgotten I even had--but he remembered it from a past project).  And I put on a hanging sleeve for a double sided quilt (see my tutorial here) because he insisted he wanted to be able to see both sides.

Label (quilt tag is from TagsToGo on Etsy).

It measures about 8.5" x  24.5".

All aboard!  Choo choo!!