Juilo's Quilts Bound

My brother and his partner adopted a baby last October.  I made 2 quilts, had them longarmed, and they sat for 2 months, waiting for me to bind them.  This week I finally got them bound.  I did the binding by machine since these are for a baby.  I hope these quilts will get dragged all over the place.  One of them is stroller/carseat sized.

Here are the tops before quilting.  I used my brother's, BIL's and husband's old 100% cotton shirts for the tops and gray dimpled minke for the backs. 

 

Here's the back:

 

 Here's the front:

 

 

The quilting is a spiky pantograph that looks like pampas grass to me, very masculine. 

 

I haven't been under any time pressure because my brother lives in Brazil, where it is summer now.  Also, I'm not going to mail them because postage is super expensive to Brazil, and then my brother would have to pay a customs duty on the quilts.  The baby clothes my mother sent cost $40 to send, took about 4 weeks to arrive and had a customs fee of close to $40.  Not worth it!  So Julio will get his quilts when they come to the US.  There will probably be another 6 months wait for his final adoption papers and visa. 

We now have a Julie, a Julianna and a Julio in our family.  Time to retire that name!

I'm linking up with Sarah.  http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2014/01/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-good-thing-weve.html and Crazy Mom Quilts. http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-quilt-for-my-brother.html