As I’ve mentioned before, I designed two quilts for my foster mother’s twin grandkids – who are seniors this year and will graduate from high school next year.  I already made a quilt for her granddaughter and now it was time to make her grandson’s quilt.

I have shared bits and pieces of this robot quilt already, which you can find here and here.

This past weekend, I was able to finish the gigantic quilt – it ended up being about 6′ x 8′!

When trying to take a photograph of a large quilt, it helps to have children who are at least 8’ tall…or 6’ tall.  Since I do not have children that are that size – you get the best quilt photo I could take with the children I have to help me (standing on a chair and the coffee table).

The photo of this quilt shown above is not worth keeping.  I couldn’t get the kids to hold the quilt so that I didn’t catch all of the furniture and their heads in the photo.  I edited one of the photos that I took and ended up with the same results.

My husband actually came up with a brilliant idea and that was to hold the quilt off the highest part of our deck and take a photo that way.  It was pretty easy to snap some photos of the quilt, though it did take my husband and all four kids to hold the quilt for me.

The moral of the story?  Listen to the hubster (shhhh, don’t tell him that, though 🙂 )