I spent some time with my mom this weekend tying a lap quilt for my boyfriend's mom's birthday. It's just a simple bar quilt to keep her lap warm while they travel in the RV. I also made a zip cover for a travel pillow from the scraps so she could tuck it behind her head for ultimate driving comfort. As you can see, my furry sewing helpers approve of new quilt.

If you like to make a quilt like this, it's super simple. Pick several coordinating fabrics. I pulled most of these from my mother's and my own enormous fabric stashes, but I'd say it was probably 2-3 yards total at the most. The only thing I bought was a blue and cream floral to go on the back, 4 yards of that. Cut your fabrics into 4" wide strips of varying lengths. Longest about 20" inches and some as short as 4". Then sew them end to end until each row is about 4 feet long. Join the rows in sets of six. You'll need 3-4 sets of six depending on how large you want the quilt. Try for a random placement so that like fabrics do not touch if possible. Then join each set of six to make the final quilt top. Square it up. Once it's all together, iron the finished quilt top. Try to get the seams to all lay flat. If you have some twisted seams, carefully clip the seam allowance and press. If the top isn't wide enough, you can add leftover rows longways as I did, or just add a border strip of matching fabric. We tied our quilt with a multicolor baby yarn, but you could also machine quilt it in a afternoon. Bind it in double fold bias tape and you're done. Cut out on Friday, done by Sunday morning.