A Quilt For Ian - Part I

My first quilt project for Ian.  The quilts from my Mom did not have a batting layer so we thought of making a warmer quilt for the air-con room.

During Hubby's leave, we visited Spotlight to get the materials...

A panel fabric that will save me a lot of quilting work.  It costs a bomb though - $16+ for one such piece of cloth.

A batting for warmth, and 3m of flannel fabric.

We had contemplated whether to get a quilt off the shelves but seeing that the quilt cover sets were normally pretty costly, we decided to DIY.  The 3 pieces of materials burst my budget as they cost well over $80.  The batting had no price tag on it so we enquired the staff.  Little did we expect that the staff had misinformed us that there was a discount on top of the price she quoted.  When we paid, the first shock came as I had thought that the panel fabric was $9.95 (assumed so because another design was at this price).  The second shock was the high price of the batting. We bought them anyway because Ian had been super cranky and hubby was super tired tackling him.  We just wanted to go home asap.  On the way back, we concluded that it was probably cheaper to ship it from overseas.

I was only able to complete the front portion of the quilt before Hubby's leave was abruptly ended. Look out for part II as the story continues...