Here's the finished quilt spread out on our bed. Ignore the clutter, and yes, with all those stuffed animals on the headboard it does look like the room belongs to a 14 year old girl lol.



This is an actual pocket. I sewed it closed, used waste canvas to stitch his name and the date on it and added a button that came from one of the shirts used for the squares. I meant to have the top part of the pocket open-ish ... it's sewn shut along the line just above the button, but the top flap part was still open. But I forgot to pin the flap back when I sewed the square together, so except for the button you really can't tell it's a pocket. Oh well



A closer shot of the pocket patch.



Anticipation is making me wait! He took his sweet time opening the package. I wanted him to be a typical kid and rip into it so fast I didn't have time to actually take a shot of him unwrapping ... but noooooooooo he had to do it nice and slow.



Finally! He yanked it out of the box fast enough lol



Here's where he discovered the patch with his name on it. "NO one else can say it's theirs!"



I made him hold it up some so that I could actually get a good picture of him with it.



"No Chris, you can't take it down to the camper" ... Rick's brother made an off-hand remark about stealing it to use in the camper he's been sleeping in. Thing is, it's kind of hard to tell if he was joking or not, Rick's brother tends to be selfish and self-centered.



He even wraps up in it to play video games. I swear the kid is always cold, even in the summer time.



So there it is, not anything fancy, definately not perfect, but the kid loves it so I think it's a huge success for a first quilt!