Shoo Fly Baby Quilts

I love traditional quilt blocks!  Here are the result of playing with Shoo Fly Blocks.   They are so easy and fun to make.

These baby quilts are for a set of twins whose gender is unknown to the parents as of yet.  I used a fat quarter bundle of So Sophie by Riley Blake and made 4 blocks with each print, 2 being the inverse of the other 2.  This way, one quilt has darks for the "background" and the other uses the lights.  A bit like twins maybe?  Different but alike?   The backing on each quilt is a soft white sheet.

Anyways, I loved being able to make a stripey binding, my favourite kind, on these little quilts, and the free motion stippling makes them so crinkly soft.  I would have loved to keep them and cuddle them, but they were happily passed on to the valiant and strong mama who is carrying these two little precious people so well.

More Granny Squares

I completed some more Granny Squares today, enough for a baby boy quilt. These are scraps from quilts I had made from Riley Blake's Hooty Hoot line and Fox Trails. I have some scraps from a quilt I made last year in Kate Spain's Verna line that will soon become a little girl Granny Square quilt. Looking forward to sewing up that sweet one!

A Quilt Makeover

This quilt was already made and shown on this blog once before. However, the binding wasn't making me happy. And, since this quilt is in the heavily used category in my home, it was already starting to fall apart. Notice that my quilting was very sparse. Those long, lonely, lines of stitching pop quilt easily, I discovered, as I heard that tell tale sound more than once when this quilt was tugged and pulled by my boys (and me).

So I ripped off the binding. And picked out all the quilting. And re-did it along all the seam lines. And here she is again.



The fabric is Fox Trails from Riley Blake and binding is Kona Solid in Lake. The backing is flannel, an argyle print from Riley Blake as well in blue. The pattern is one of my favourites: Small Plates from Elizabeth Hartman's book, Practical Guide to Patchwork.

Jumping on the Granny Square Bandwagon

I was sorting through my 2.5 inch scraps and realized I had a bunch of coordinating ones that might make a fun baby quilt! So I decided to try the Granny Square Block that has been so popular on Flickr! lately. These are fun to make!

Baby Quilts with Solids and Charms

More baby quilt tops! So quick and easy with some Kona Solid yardage and some charm packs!

The yellow squares are made with Kona Daffodil and Wee Woodland charms from Moda. The blue triangles are Kona Lake with Scoot charms from Riley Blake. (Anyone else notice that Riley Blake charms are *quite* exact? No problems with the Moda ones, though!)

Fox Trails Charm Quilt

Working on a simple, simple charm baby quilt from cute, cute Fox Trails fabrics from Riley Blake.  I can't stop straight line quilting a quarter inch from the seams.  It's my favourite way to quilt, what can I say?

Fox Trails Done

Adapting Elizabeth Hartman's Small Plates pattern, this was made with some Riley Blake charms and a roly poly from their fabric line Fox Trails.  I tried a raw edge binding this time, not sure how I feel about it.  The quilting is loose diagonal lines, since the batting in this is just a flannel sheet and the backing is a piece of flannel this makes it very drapey and not in need of much quilting.

Fox Trails Pin Basted

Tonight I am pin basting another version of Small Plates by Elizabeth Hartman. Sorry about the colour of the photo, I am taking it at night!  This one is using fabrics from Riley Blake (actually two charm packs and a roly-poly).

Here is my first one, done last year, in owl prints and some others from Riley Blake.


And here is my second, in Robot Factory by Caleb Gray.