a 2-year-old's taste vs. mama's taste

I have recently come to the realization that my littlest one is drawn to colours that I don't usually choose -- bright, sunny, acidic colours that I like but almost always dismiss in favour of soft, faded, earthy tones.

For a while now I have had the sneaking suspicion that the quilt top I had intended for her double-sized bed was going to be loved by me, but not by her: it is the one from Bee (A Little Bit) Japanese:

and it was meant to replace the Hello Betty-Kitty quilt that is too small for her current mattress:

You may be wondering why a 2-year-old has such a big mattress...but some of you have probably intuited that the big mattress indicates a toddler who has trouble sleeping on her own.  Yes, this bed is also my bed (most of the time).  Hopefully that will change soon -- we're going to work on it once the semester is over.  In the meantime, the skimpy kitty quilt means that mama's getting cold, so a bigger quilt is needed!

Miss F loves fabric and loves quilts, but she has had no particular attachment to Hello Betty-Kitty and shows no enthusiasm for the Japanese quilt top.

On the other hand, she became instantly attached to a charm pack of "Verna" -- which is now hers and hers alone, stored in a cookie tin for her games of "quilties" (in which she arranges the squares on the floor).

I have slowly clued in to the fact that the quilts I have (ostensibly) made for Miss F's bed speak more to my taste (what I would have loved when I was tiny!) than they do to hers.

So something new is brewing, and it involves a scrap bag of Verna (a big score from Fabric Depot in Portland OR), scraps of Heather Ross and assorted Japanese prints and a LOT of pink and chartreuse. 

This one's really for YOU, my little bean!!

More to come....