Hi there. I'm new, and just made my introduction in the intro section. I'm a middle-aged guy, husband and father, with hobbies in the motorsports. I race vintage cars and motorcycles on enclosed road courses (racetracks like Road America, Laguna Seca, etc.). When I race at tracks far from home, I enjoy camping out at the track; sometimes sleeping in a tent in the parking lot (we call paddock) or sometimes in the back of my pickup truck used to haul the car or motorcycles to the event. One day I decided it would be nice to have a beefy, large quilt that I could use while camping. And wouldn't it be cool if it had panels representing all the things I loved on wheels? That way, I could wrap myself in all the things I loved, aside from my family, of course
My only experience sewing before this quilt was when I bought an old Pfaff 130 a couple years ago to sew some small leather projects. Then while quilting, I became obsessed with older mechanical/analog sewing machines and started collecting them. I love precision tools, and have a full machine shop on my property, in part to repair and maintain my racing vehicles. Sewing machines to me are like precision thread-injecting fabric welders, and I appreciate their complexity and accuracy. So I bought a bunch.
Anyway, here's my man-quilt, and like those annoying backstories you get before the actual recipe online, I'm going to have to set up my pictures with reasons why I did what I did.
First panel of my quilt is dedicated to an old Toyota Land Cruiser that I restored in my driveway a couple years ago. This Japanese Katakana script for Toyota looks like "Teq". I'm sewing it up with a Pfaff 360, which is a great machine (one of my favorites):