The world is just bursting with brilliant ideas, isn’t it? On Labor Day, my kids and I accompanied my parents to a local museum to see an exhibit about the Titanic, and once my 3-year-old got bored (prob. 10 minutes in, sorry Titanic) we retired to the children’s section. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen! I was having almost as much fun as my son exploring the caves, log cabin, tepee, etc.

So here’s the cool idea that I want to recreate in my daughter’s play area: a change-it-up wall quilt.

It consists of a plain muslin “background” quilt, large enough to hold a 4 x 4 grid of quilt squares. Four long strips of Velcro are sewn in rows, the first about 2″ from the top and the rest spaced out so there’s about an inch between the bottom of one row of squares and the top of the next row.

See the Velcro? Soft side on the squares.

And then there was this little basket on the floor full of more squares, so you can redecorate at will.

So I’m picturing pink, teal, green, and yellow for her room. Colorful and happy. Maybe instead of traditional quilt squares, I’ll do appliqued shapes of some of her favorite things (birds, ladybugs, strawberries).

This concept would also be really cool if you reworked it as scenery — like if you quilted a big tree on a muslin background and had little apples, flowers, and wildlife that you could reposition. Maybe some grass across the bottom. Too fun, huh?

Does this spark any ideas in you? Share them in the comments, I’d love to hear what else this could be! And if you make/have made anything similar, post a link. We’ll start a trend together.

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