I Spy quilt top finish..................

The I Spy quilt top just looks like checkerboard from a distance but what fun there is when you get close.

It is 56.5" x 72.5" so I'm considering a border but it won't happen today or tomorrow.  The squares are 4" finished.

Every I Spy novelty print is different, no repeats, 124 unique squares.  There were a few times when I could cut different areas in the same fabric.  I know there are 3 from the Snoopy baseball fabric and another was a zoo animals print where I cut several different squares.

I took 6 close up shots.  You can click on the photo twice to get an expanded view.

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These 6 photos are a little crooked because I was holding the camera above my head for 2 and squatting down for 2.  The remaining 2 were straight on  shots.

I wonder if any of you recognize any of these novelty fabrics.  I have been collecting them for close to 30 years.

I used to teach a class on making I Spy quilts and I offered kits to the students.  After all I only needed a few squares out of many of them for my own use so there was plenty left over, even in a quarter yard.

One of my friends who also taught an I Spy quilt class had her students make a little notebook to go along with the quilt with a list of everything that was in the quilt, one page for things starting with A, etc, all the way through the alphabet.

These 6 photos probably don't show you every print that is in the quilt.

I have a stack of 6.5" I Spy fabrics to work on next.  The third quilt I plan to make might have a combination of both size left over squares.