Hmm, well here I am.

I remember saving the link to this pattern several years ago.  I don't do much applique but it just looks so fun!  Well, a friend messaged me several weeks ago asking if I could make her little boy another quilt.  The map was her idea and sounded great!  I first found a cool world map tutorial but thought that for a one year old...maybe the country they are from might be a better option. Choosing each of the 50 fabrics from my scraps was harder than I thought it would be.  Once I had them all found and the states cut out I still had to do some rearranging for states that just seemed to disappear.  Texas is actually brown minkie!  Washington is corduroy and Oregon is satin! I only accidentally left off California once...oh and Louisiana too!  Oops!  I embroidered a little heart in the part of our lovely state that he is from.  Then I just did some starburst lines out from the heart for the quilting! The back was too boring with just one fabric so I made a 3r