For MY Boys Blog Hop

What can I say? A mother of three daughters finally has a set of boys and now I can make non-girlie things! Miles is 3 years old today!

Favorite activity when they come visit grandpa? Cruising in the wheelbarrow, just this past weekend!

My two little grandsons (1 and 3 years old, this week)

 Another favorite activity? Playing in the big "bubba" truck!

One big boy and two little boys in the truck bed. "Can I drive now, grandpa?"

So, you know I had to make trucks and things with wheels for the little boys.

Pam Rocco's patterns from a past issue of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine

I was going to make a quilt like Pam's and then realized that I didn't have the energy to put an entire quilt together. Plus, I wanted something for both boys to share. Why not over sized postcard versions of these cars, trucks and buses? Well, why not!!

You can see Pam's quilt - and get the free pattern at the QNM site - and my early blocks here: The Wheels on the Bus . . .

My daughter Audrey suggested I add family photos to the "windows", so I did for some of them.

Blue car with Tia Audrey and Miles ("tia" is "aunt" in Spanish)

One of my first blocks:

Simple blue car, quilted in simple echo lines

Here is Grandpa in the window of the green 1985 Dodge Ram pickup.

Turn your head around, grandpa! You need to watch the road!

Little green car. Don't you love that orange tailpipe?

Can Miles really sit in Grandpa's lap like that?

Big, green semi with Miles and Grandpa in the driver's seat (I think that's against the law, right?)

Miles' parents in the front of their orange eco-car

I paper pieced the cars and trucks, added batting, quilted in simple echo lines. Then, to save myself a lot of time, I used a specialty rotary cutter blade to "pink" the edges. Easy and quick. Love it.

Light blue fabric with cars (Benartex) for the back

Dark blue fabric with little cars

Big orange semi

Wow! Look at these crazy people in the front seat!

Tio Dani and Tia Audrey in front window; Aunt Pookie and Grandma in middle window; Great Grandparents in the back

The first bus I made.

You can have the free pattern for Pam's quilt by visiting Quilter's Newsletter:

City Traffic Quilt by Pam Rocco, as seen in the Quilter's Newsletter Magazine

Hope you enjoyed seeing the boys and their toys today.

Many thanks to Amy of Sew Incredibly Crazy and Madame Samm of Sew We Quilt
 for putting this all together!

And Samm? How's this for Superman? You have an action figure, I searched the entire universe and found him at the Masonic Temple in Alexandria, Virginia this summer and he consented to have his picture taken with me! That little boy grew up to be quite a BIG BOY!

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive . . .

Now go see what today's bloggers have to share about "For the Boys":

 

 Debby Kratovil Quilts (you are here)

Made By Me in Red

Freemotion by the River

Val's Quilting Studio

Tomorrow's Treasures Today

The Stitchin’ Post

The Nosy Pepper

The Reluctant Quilter

Happy Birthday Miles (today) and Matteo (last week)!