My first grandson is being born in August of this year. His name is going to be Patrick Robert. I am really looking forward to his birth and because I live so far away from my son, Rick and my daughter-in-law, Marjory, I wanted to do something nice for Patrick.

I thought that I would make Patrick a quilt. I used to do a lot of sewing at one time and I have made a few quilts in my time. Patrick's quilt is going to be very special and he will have the only one in the world, guaranteed.

I write children's stories. I have written 900 of them to date. With my children's stories, I have several different characters that I write about. I thought it would be a wonderful idea to use those characters in Patrick's quilt. What I am going to do is take six of my male characters like Billy Troll, Travellin' Rick, Hillbilly Bob etc. I have drawn pictures of these characters so what I am going to do is buy some tshirt transfers and then transfer my characters onto six blocks of fabric. These blocks will be about one foot wide by one foot long. In between the blocks, I will sew a patchwork quilt pattern in blue shades of fabric. I will then sew a border in the same shades of blue fabric as well.

I am not sure how I will quilt it yet but I am thinking that I want to quilt it by hand. I am thinking that on the white blocks of fabric I will quilt aroound each character and then on the blue shades of fabric I am thinking of quilting a pattern of little clouds on it.

I am really looking forward to getting started on this quilt. I am going to start off by purchasing the tshirt transfers first and then enough white fabric for the six blocks. That way I can get my characters onto the fabric. Once that is done, I will then purchase the blue fabric. For the blue fabric I am thinking of using light blue shades. That will be fairly easy to sew. The most time consuming part will be the actual quilting of the quilt.

I hope Patrick will appreciate his quilt and I'm sure he will. I am hoping to be able to have the quilt in Rick and Marjory's hands so that they can bring Patrick home from the hospital in it.

Don't worry, I will be taking pictures of the quilt as I sew it and once it is done, I will post the photographs of it on this hub so that you can all enjoy it and like I said this is going to be a one-of-a-kind quilt, guaranteed.

June 19, 2009 - Today I purchased the fabric and the tshirt transfers for Patrick's quilt. However, I have a laser printer and the tshirt transfers are just for inkjet printers. I will have to figure out another way of doing this quilt.

June 21, 2009 - I have an idea of how I'm going to solve the problem of Patrick's quilt. I decided to tape a piece of fabric to a piece of cardstock paper and run it through my laser printer. It worked. I am amazed.

June 22, 2009 - I have started sewing Patrick's quilt. I have the first row done. It is going to be six squares across by ten rows down. It is turning out way better than I could ever have imagined. I think this is going to be one awesome quilt for one awesome little boy.

June 24, 2009 - I have three more blocks printed off for Patrick's quilt. The three I did today were Travellin' Rick (who by the way, is my daughter-in-laws favourite character and she is the mother of Patrick), Homie and Ice.

June 26, 2009 - Three more blocks are completed. This time I put Hillbilly Bob, Jen-Jen and Lucky Leprechaun on the quilt. I started sewing this block yesterday and when I got to the Lucky Leprechaun block, I heard someone popping up on my computer so I went to check it out and it was my daughter, Jenny. She told me that Michael Jackson had just died. I was in shock and couldn't finish this row yesterday. I am still in shock over his death. It is so sad.

July 3, 2009 - I finished the fourth row of the quilt today and it is looking so awesome!!! I can't believe how well it is coming together. The fourth row has The PeaPods, Pirate Pete and Batty. I am thinking that the 5th row will have Fawn and Spot in it. How can I make a quilt of my children's story characters and not include them. They are the backbone of my website.

July 15, 2009 - A lot of personal things have been preventing me from working on this my grandson's quilt. I have been exhausted, sick with a stomach infection and stressed right out. Also, we had a little scare with Patrick because the hospital told my daughter-in-law that baby Patrick was having complications. It turns out he is going to be fine and should be born now in about 5 weeks time. I am now at the half-way mark of his quilt and just hope I get the ambition back that I need to finish this quilt for my sweet little grandson.