JustASouthernGirl Simon's ABC quilt - I made this quilt for our first grandchild. Knowing my daughter was decorating the nursery with an alphabet wall, I chose to design an alphabet quilt using different fonts and sizes of letters. I tried to use a different fabric for each letter but ended up repeating three fabrics because I couldn't find enough prints in the colorway combination she had requested: aqua, lime, gray, white and black. I hand appliqued the letters, but machine pieced the blocks and border, and then used a friend's long arm to quilt in a meandering pattern. I kept the design a surprise until I gave it to my daughter at her baby shower. She was thrilled with it, and uses it as the backdrop for weekly photos of our grandson.