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Toddler Quilt – Heath’s Quilt – Construction Machines

Alanda Craft February 26, 2017 6 Comments This post may contain affiliate links.

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For my great-grandson Heath’s 3rd birthday, I made him this quilt made from construction machine panels.

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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 I had 2 panels, I set about working out how I was going to tackle this.  I  kept thinking it was an odd-shaped pane,l as it was too wide and too short and it was from that point of view that I made the quilt.

This ‘Construction’ panel was designed by Nancy J. Smith and Lynda S.Milligan for Alvin Inc.

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What I Did

After laying out the panel, Paula and I had a round table talk about what to do and we decided that there was only one thing for it and that was to separate the pictures into individual blocks.

  • So I cut around each of the vehicle blocks, leaving a ¼” seam where possible so that there was a bit of a buffer around each picture.
  • Then I lay the blocks out and moved them around until I was happy with the layout.

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Before going any further I had to decide on how big I wanted the centerpiece and the overall quilt to be. I decided to make the center 45½” wide and 63″ long. This meant building up the center blocks to these measurements.

  •  As the blocks were different sizes I had to add sashing to the smaller blocks to make them the same size as the largest block in each row.
  •  Once each of the blocks had their sashing added it was time to add some fillers to make the rows 45½” wide.
  • This was done by adding some contrasting stripes, some checkerboard panels and some horizontal stripes.
  • The horizontal stripes are only ½” wide so they were fiddly to make.
  •  If I made another one like this I would try and find some striped material to cut on the diagonal to get the same effect.

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  • Once all the rows were the same height and width, I sewed them together with light blue 2″ sashing between them.

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  • Close-up of the joining pieces and the sashing.

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  • Now that the centerpiece was sewn, it was still short so I built up the ends with black and yellow checkerboards to bring it up to 63″.
  • Then it was just a matter of adding the borders. I went with a 1″ black border to frame the centre panel, then added a 3″ yellow border and finally a 4½” blue border.

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  • I ended up not having enough of the dark blue for the backing and so I decided to make it multicolored to use up the material I had on hand.

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  • The quilt was professionally quilted by Chris, the longarm quilter from Sew ‘n Sew Sisters.  She quilted the quilt with construction trucks which absolutely suit the theme of the quilt.
  • Here you can see the detail on the back of the quilt.

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  • I then bound the quilt in yellow to finish it off.

I have to say I am very pleased with the result.

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Filed Under: Quilting Panels, Quilting Tutorials, Stuff We Do Tagged With: construction quilt panel, quilting, sewing

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Comments

  1. Connie S Hodges says

    November 29, 2018 at 4:43 am

    is this fabric still available?

    Reply
    • Alanda says

      November 29, 2018 at 9:04 am

      I had a quick check online but couldn’t find the same fabric. I searched for construction machinery fabric and did find this company https://www.kkfabrics.com.au/product-category/novelty-collections/mining-trucks-7106-novelty-collections/. It’s not the same but they may have something that would suit your purpose. You may find some at a fabric store but most fabric seems to be discontinued after a short time.Sorry I couldn’t be of more help Connie.

      Reply
  2. Gladys Santiago says

    September 9, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    Hi. I’m trying to find this panels everywhere, not luck. Do you have an idea where else I can look. Thanks

    Reply
    • Alanda Craft says

      September 11, 2020 at 11:36 am

      Sorry Gladys, I did a search but have been unable to find it for you. It was a few years ago now and so it is probably out of stock. You may find it on Ebay or Etsy.

      Reply
      • Lyn says

        March 15, 2022 at 10:11 pm

        K K Fabrics have a new range of Construction fabric coming out. They are awesome. Check out their website

        Reply
        • Alanda Craft says

          March 16, 2022 at 1:04 pm

          Thank you Lyn. I will keep an eye out for the release. They certainly have some lovely designs.

          Reply

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