Ok, I'll admit, I conceptualized making this one before I even knew there was a baby coming. 6 months to a year ago, I bought a small amount of a solid light blue colored fabric that I thought would go well with the darker blue solid and darker stripes (which I already had and bought maybe two years ago), then found the lighter striped fabric in my closet. While unearthing the lighter striped fabric, I came across the "cowboy toile" remnant I bought several years ago and loved so hard I couldn't cut it up and sew with it then (have since moved on from cowboy phase). I had decided to work a nine-square pattern with all the other blues, so I just figured out a way to fit it in, by throwing in some larger squares (taking the place of four smaller squares) that would let the cowboy print show, and also throwing in a couple half-square triangles, for some variety, and to shake up the very rigid lines that were being created.
The quilting stitches I worked on my sewing machine, half the presser foot's distance in from the edge of the solid blue squares edges, so that the lines almost shake from side to side (again, trying to disrupt some of the rigid up and down-ness of the nine-square edges and the striped fabric).
The edging is a blue color that was used for the entire back. I did run out just shy of enough to go all the way around, but I subbed in some of the darker blue color from the front of the blanket (not an exact match, but close- shhhhhh). On the upside, I have NO leftovers of that fabric that will sit in my closet for another several years until I find a use for them!
All in all, I think it turned out really nice, a little small (roughly 36x45), but good for a little baby, and little baby Romo is in fact- a baby.
