Baby Quilt Accomplished
I 'wake up' last Thursday, realizing I need to get a baby gift together for a baby shower on Sunday. Basically, three days away. Of course, I have only had months to do this gift, as the baby shower was planned for after the baby arrived. I figured I would do my usual baby quilt. They are tough and take the abuse over the years. We have one I made just before Savvy was born and it's still in use (with a couple of mending spots).
As it happened, Joann's had a sale on flannel. Relief number one. Then I came across this design by Amy Smart at Diary of a Quilter. It was simple, looked easy and quick and different from my usual whole cloth baby quilt (sigh of relief). Before work I ran into Joann's and picked out 8 different fabrics, 6 for the front, 1 for the back and 1 for the binding.
I went with bright for the front, as you can see. Looking back, I should have selected at least 8 for the front or even 12 in order to get different block combinations. The back, I selected a calm or softer look. The binding is this hot pink 'pok-ka' dots, as Lady K says.
For the binding, I used Amy's binding tutorial. This was the first time I had used this method of binding and I have to say I really love the look and feel of it. It's easy and I can see this becoming my go-to method for binding a quilt. It gives the quilt a nice 'heft' on the edge and very easy to do.
Now my big issue with this pattern is (1) it's easy and (2) I have 3 layer cakes in my stash now screaming to be used for an adult quilt using this pattern. I want to do four stars and put them together for a quilt. It would make the quilt huge (84 x 84), but would be very simple to make.
It seems my list of projects keeps growing and not decreasing.
As it happened, Joann's had a sale on flannel. Relief number one. Then I came across this design by Amy Smart at Diary of a Quilter. It was simple, looked easy and quick and different from my usual whole cloth baby quilt (sigh of relief). Before work I ran into Joann's and picked out 8 different fabrics, 6 for the front, 1 for the back and 1 for the binding.
I went with bright for the front, as you can see. Looking back, I should have selected at least 8 for the front or even 12 in order to get different block combinations. The back, I selected a calm or softer look. The binding is this hot pink 'pok-ka' dots, as Lady K says.
Texter liked the design, but felt the fabric selections were just not her. Good thing it wasn't for her. I do need to work on my points a bit. The quilting on the quilt is just a simple echo quilting on the inside of the blocks. I used a basic pink Coats & Clark cotton thread on the quilt, both for piecing and quilting. My stash of threads isn't all that great - yet!
Now my big issue with this pattern is (1) it's easy and (2) I have 3 layer cakes in my stash now screaming to be used for an adult quilt using this pattern. I want to do four stars and put them together for a quilt. It would make the quilt huge (84 x 84), but would be very simple to make.
It seems my list of projects keeps growing and not decreasing.
I LOVE it! Turned out so great. I'm so glad the pattern was helpful. :) I love the idea of four big stars!
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