Baby Quilts

I managed to get four baby quilts done for my craft show a couple weeks ago and I'm just now getting around to sharing them with you all.  Two boy-ish and two girl-ish.  They were quick and easy, just what I needed to get them done for the show!

For this one I used Kona cottons and these cute truck prints form Pooches and Pickups.  I just did some simple straight line quilting and bound it in Kona cotton.

This one is made with Kona cotton in white and a Hello Luscious charm pack with Hello Luscious yardage for the back.  This one is also straight line quilted and bound with Kona Cotton.  I made this one from start to finish the day before the show!

This was the first one I pieced.  It's made with more Kona Cotton (pretty much the only solid I work with) and selected prints from Get Together.  I chose to stipple this one and I was pretty happy with how the quilting turned out.

Then there's this little pretty thing!  I love this quilt.  It is probably just the colors, but I want a throw sized one for myself.  I used Kona Cotton in Ash, a Vintage Modern charm pack and Sherbet Dot from Ruby for the back.  For the quilting I gave wavy lines a try and love the look.  I bound it with a dot fabric from my stash.  I just love the whole thing!

And then there is this little guy, he was my shadow while I was photographing these quilts.  Isn't he just soooo cute?!  This is Drummer, my little long haired chihuahua weighing in at six whole pounds.  He is my constant shadow.  Whether I'm sitting at my sewing desk or sitting on the couch, cooking dinner or brushing my teeth he is always at my feet.  In fact, in this very picture he is sitting at my feet!  Oh I just love him so much!

Have a wonderful evening!

Christine

A Quilt in a Day?!

I started and finished a quilt in one day, actually in less than 10 hours and that's started and finished a single quilt!  The fabric arrived in the mail around 1PM and I was throwing it in the washing machine around 10:30PM.  Now its just a baby quilt, measures about 33 X 40, but still, I'm pretty impressed with myself.

I cut all of the fabric and arranged the layout of the rows.

I chain pieced the rows and then added the sashing.

Pieced the backing and basted it all together.  Then, for the very first time, stippled the whole thing!  I love stippling, but haven't had the guts to try it out on a quilt so I just decided to dive in and do it.  I am so glad I did.  I think I did pretty good for my first time!




Sorry for the shadows, I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't even notice!

And voila!  A baby quilt for my nephew for Christmas!

This is one of Amy's quilt patterns over at Oh, Fransson!, it's this one.  Super easy and came together in a flash! ;)  Made from 38 charm squares and 5/8 of a yard of fabric for the sashing!

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Hurray!

This is how my machine has been sitting or the past few weeks: ready, but not doing anything.  The last time I used it I put on my darning foot so it would be ready to go.  I figured this would keep me for working on anything else until I worked on Katie's Quilt and it worked.

With my nieces arriving this weekend for a two week visit I knew I needed to get my butt in gear and get this quilt done.  So two nights ago I sat down at my machine with the quilt and vowed not to move from my seat until the quilting was finished.  Well, when you have a three year old that is pretty impossible, BUT I did finish the quilting before I went to bed!  It felt awesome!  Now I just need to make and attach the binding and finish clipping the seams so it would fray nicely in the wash (which felt never ending).

First thing yesterday morning I got started on the binding, finished that up and attached it to the quilt.  I had to take a break to watch my three month old nephew for a bit, but then back to work.  I hadn't decided if I was going to finish the binding by hand or machine, but I decided to do it by machine and I am quite happy with how it turned out!  It was awesome to see a finished quilt coming out the back of the machine!  I still had to finish clipping the seams, but I couldn't wait to get it in the wash!

Once I had it in the wash I could hardly contain my excitement!  It was done and I couldn't wait to see the results of my very first FINISHED quilt!

So with out further ado...

I LOVE the texture that was created on the back!

Over all I am happy with how this quilt turned out.  I would prefer it without the fraying, but that is what she wanted.  I'm just thrilled that it is done and I can move on.  I have felt so guilty working on anything else while this quilt was waiting to be finished!  So now I am free to work on new projects...like my Rainbow Charm Swap Quilt!

I decided on pinwheels.  I'm pretty excited about this quilt, but I must say it's a bit disappointing that two 5" squares cut up and sewn back together only come out 5.75"!  I'll get over it...

There are a few more photos of Katie's Quilt over on my Flickr if you are interested.

Charm Squares!

I received my Rainbow Charm Squares in the mail today!  Yay!

Now I need to get busy!

Christine