My parents’ super nice neighbor is helping them screen in their second floor porch. My dad has been ‘building that porch’ for about six year. And now, thanks to his neighbor, the porch is almost done after one week of work! So I’m making the neighbor a quilt for his trouble. Him and his wife are marathoners, but I couldn’t think of a good quilt idea that had to do with running. But then my dad told me he’s a hunter! And then I was looking through Boo Davis’s awesome book Dare to be Square Quilting, and found this awesome pattern.

So I picked out my fabric - a mix of kona solids, some of the new yellow print from the DS Quilts line at Joanne’s, and some random blue prints and a brown woven.

My favorite part of Boo’s quilt is the bits of red and yellow, and they’re not included in the cutting instructions - so I went through her pattern and wrote them in just like she has in the photo and subtracted out the blue pieces they would replace.

It only took about 3.5 hrs to do all the cutting - super easy pattern!

And then in an hour, I knocked out 4 blocks - the top row of the quilt. But it was so late at night, the color of this photo stinks.

More (better) pictures to come! I can’t wait to finish it up. I highly recommend this book.