And what else would it be besides motorcycles??!...I began collecting and piecing things in my mind....and found a green fabric with black gears, masculine enough, I thought. Then came the black fabric with engineering type drawings of trains in white....and I thought since he rides and drives a Harley, and frequents the dealerships, I added the orange...couldn't find the actual racing orange, but, close enough. Some smaller pieces are from an outfit I made for a hula competition where I chanted (it looks like burnt wood, ash and rock), and then some other Hawaiian print in coordinating colors. When pieced together you can't see the Hawaiian...it is virtually hidden, kinda like me!! The green fabric that reminds me of oil spills and how oil and water don't mix, and then the freaky yellowish olive green with more circles...another black with small gray circles and dots...and I went through several striped fabrics before settling on the black and white for the border.
I practiced my machine quilting...wow...I need a lot more practice...but the quilting looks like roads that meander, some with dead ends, some that go on seemingly forever.
What did I learn? What can I improve upon? I'd like to work a quilt top that stays flat and is cleanly pressed before adding the batting and backing. I wished I had another couple of rows of circles and that the quilt was a foot longer--to envelope the user in warmth from neck to toe. At this size, it's a lap quilt.