Back in November 2007, my local Hancock's had a sale. Since I wanted to pick up some fabric for a wall hanging project, I headed over there...and promptly walked out with fabric for a completely different project.

I know, I know, but they didn't have any of the fabric that I wanted for the wallhanging (this was the Kitschy Ckicky wallhanging I wanted to do for my sister; as it turned out, I had to get all the fabric from online sources). Since I was there anyway, however, I figured I would peruse the clearance cottons, and what did I find but some King Kong fabric in an attractive blue and teal colorway. One fabric was a repeat of the 2004 movie titles in dark teal on a light teal background, and and the other fabric was a repeat of Kong battling the T. rex against a dark blue and teal jungle background.

(There was a third fabric that blared "ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE" in neon letters, but frankly I thought it was hideous. )

Now, I hear you out there as you wonder aloud, "Melanie, what in the wide world of sports would possess you to purchase King Kong fabric? The fabric with the 50's era women standing at an elegant bar, I can understand, or that cute 50's cartoon cat sitting on a chair with a white sunburst in the background -- that was kicky. But King Kong? We are talking about a giant monkey, right? Did you perhaps go without air a little longer than you thought during that laryngospasm episode?"

To which I reply, "Oh, bite me."

More pertinently, however, I know of a little girl who is inordinately fond of dinosaurs, dragons and monsters, and who adores King Kong to bits. As I also possess a buttload of batiks in this particular colorway, I figured I could make her a very smart twin-size quilt with this fabric using the big repeat as a feature block and the titles fabric as backing and border fabric.

And lo, I did.

	Here's the quilt spread across the futon in my office, in an attempt at an artistic layout. Hey, it's a small office.
	Another artsy shot down a valley of Kongs slugging it out with T. rexes. I think the batiks worked out quite nicely with the printed motifs.
	Lyndon: "When you came to Guildford all those years ago, I bet you never thought you'd be getting a quilt hanger in the bargain." Me: "And you're my monkey, too!" Lyndon: "You're not going to forget that, are you?" Me: "Not soon, no."
	A close-up of one of the batik/text double squares -- the double squares are quilted with stitch in the ditch and the text squares have a little looped heart motif. I hadn't really planned on the small blue squares marching diagonally across the quilt, but it turned out to be rather nice.