Dino Dig!

Every now and then a pattern finds its way to me more than once, and more than twice.  It's not necessarily a bad thing!  That just means that A.) I know what I like, and B.) my family and friends know what I like.

This pattern found its way to me three times. 

It's a cute pattern!  The dino on the middle right has something strange going on (a long-necked herbivore with carnivore teeth? Exsqueese me?), but overall, it's cute.  So I made it and we kitted it up.

Nevermind my face...I was vexed at shorting myself just shy of 3" of border on that one side.  Damn it. And yes, the dinos all got button eyes after it was quilted.  No eyeless dinos here!

But, I do have to brag for a minute...

THAT CORNER, Y'ALL.  It is so sharp and so clean!  So much so I had to take a picture of it, because otherwise it may not have actually happened.  (Pics, or it didn't happen!)

Finally! A Dino Fabric a Girl Can be Proud of!

While I did love the Disney princesses when I was little, I have always loved dinosaurs.  Real ones, not the cutesy little stupid ones.  I remember I used to ask my mom as a kid if T-Rex was real, if he could look in our windows.  He probably could have! 

So I have grown into an adult who loves dinosaurs.  Too bad paleontology doesn't pay, because that is a field I'd love to be in.  I watch as many documentaries as I can, and I read as many articles and studies as possible.  One of the things I have always whined about as a quilter is that all the dinosaur fabric on the market is not only targeted to kids only, pretty much to boys exclusively, but they're always cartoony.  I mean, I get it, some kids are scared of dinos, but many aren't.  But they get cartoony, dummy dinos. Ick.

Until Michael Searle designed this.  

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM IN LOVE.  Toothy, bitey, realistic dinosaurs! I already have something in the works.  It's going to be badass.