craft

I want to make a quilt for two little boys who are twins. Should I make them the same because they are twins or different from each other. What would you do? I am also open to ideas what kind of quilt to make for them. The boys will be two this coming July and will be going to a big boy toddler bed soon. Their mom just had a little girl last week.

Thanks you all for your help friends.

nativetexan

scottie dogs for one and maybe giraffes or elephants for the other would be cute.

thimblebug6000

For twin boys I made the Yellow Brick Road pattern and used different coloured borders.

Iceblossom

When my son was little and had bunk beds, I started to collect western fabrics for Cowboy Boot blocks. Each of the tops had about half of the same boots and half different. Unfortunately, I didn't get the fabrics collected in time nor the tops pieced until long after the bunk beds had gone. But now I'm expecting a grandbaby so the tops have been put back in the "yeah, I need to quilt those down" list. I have the backs and binding and everything...

I started with the pattern in Quilter's Newsletter decades ago, but ended up drafting my own. It's a bit odd, slightly rectangular rather than square, but I got the boot I was happiest with that way. Be happy to provide you with that if it sounds good to you.

Let's see if I can post a picture...

Kitsie

For grandkids I did different patterns, same fabrics.

Jojk

For my nephews (2 yrs apart in age) I went the "same but different" route. I keyed on their favorite colors (red vs blue), used some prints the same in both, and some prints different. I loved that I found the "flames" in red and blue as well. The quilts are a disappearing nine patch but because I used so many different prints it came out quirky. But I loved them and call them Chaos Contained. I figured it was appropriate for 2 pre-teens.

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Tartan

With twins, I would do I Spy squares and put red borders on one and green borders on the other.

dunster

I agree with jojk, "same but different." Although with 2-year-old twins, they will be sharing all the time anyway.

Jordan

I think the Warm Wishes pattern would look nice with the same theme fabric in the large areas and then different sashing fabrics.

craft

I have not heard of Warm Wishes patterns before.