Paris in the Spring Baby Quilt

Here is a pretty baby quilt I decided to name Paris in the Spring when I landed on the Eiffel Tower backing fabric for it hiding in my stash.  I started with a few pieces of Lillybelle fabric by Bari J. for Art Gallery fabrics, some aqua and pale blue solids and one little pink piece of fabric from 3 Sisters' line Paris Flea Market.  Et voilà!

I quilted it with the wavy stitch on my Bernina (otherwise known as stitch number 4) and a pale pink Aurifil 40 wt thread.  Finished dimensions are 35" by 43".

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Welcome to my Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry in the Baby Quilt Category!

I made this little quilt this summer for my Etsy shop. It was purely a therapeutic exercise, beginning with a pretty charm pack (Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille), some coordinating solids (a white and Bella's Robin's Egg Blue), and then.... I just went from there. I saw stars, then I saw pinwheels, and then I saw stitches. It might sound like I hit my head, but I guess I saw this quilt!

I decided to round the corners of the quilt, and thusly got an education in making bias binding. Thanks to Jona Giammalva! So that was fun. The binding fabric is one of my favourites, a print from Silent Cinema by Jenean Morrison.

The stitches I envisioned were big, colourful hand stitches in thick Aurifil thread - in both 12 wt and 28 wt. These I added to the top and bottom borders.

And here are the stats in a nutshell:

Dimensions:  31" by 36"

Fabrics: Happy Go Lucky, by Bonnie and Camille

Robin Egg Blue, Moda Bella Solid

Winter White, Free Spirit Solid

Silent Cinema, by Jenean Morrison (binding)

Hello Pilgrim, by Lizzy House (backing)

Batting: Warm & Natural

Thread: Aurifil 50 wt (piecing) and Aurifil 12 wt and 28 wt (hand quilting)

Completed June 2013

So that's it for me here!  Hope you enjoy the Quilt Festival and have fun looking around at all the pretty!

Previous Quilt Festival Entries: 

SPRING 2013

FALL 2012

Scrumptious Baby Quilt

Oh, I almost forgot to blog about this one!  I finished hand quilting it while on vacation:

It's made with a charm pack of Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille for Moda, and some coordinating Kona solids in pink, green and orange. The french text background fabric has generated a few inquiries on Instagram, and I bought mine from Kloth and I wish I could say it was easily found, but it isn't... oh, oh, oh! I just went to look and she has it in again, hooray! It's by Stof and is called Merci Beaucoup! Isn't it pretty? Quick! Buy some!!

I wish now I would have used a creamier white for the pieced border, to match the text fabric better, but it actually does look closer in real life.

The little deer in the text print reminded me of the little deer in one of my favourite lines from Moda, by Jesse and Lauren Jung, Hideaway. So it is used on the back. Sweet, sweet little deer!

The binding is also a favourite print and colour of mine, from the Silent Cinema line by Jenean Morrison. I also used it in this baby quilt.

 I pieced the entire quilt on my machine with my usual Aurifil, and the hand quilting was also done in Aurifil, in a 12 wt. Final dimensions are 31" by 38". And it is for sale in my shop!

Pretty in Pink Quilt (Oh So Original, I Know!)

I finished this sweet baby girl quilt today!  Could you get any more feminine and pretty than this?  I suppose I could have added ruffles....

My favourite feature is the decorative embroidery stitches I used for some of the quilting lines.  These were made with stitch number 301 on my Bernina.  I used a variegated thread in pale pink, yellow and cream from Sulky.  The rest of the quilting was done with my standby Aurifil 50 wt in ivory.

The fabrics are all from different 3 Sisters for Moda lines, Aviary, Shangri-La, Astor Manor and Paris Flea Market!  And the finished size is 34.5" by 39".

 

Verna Granny Squares Baby Quilt

Finally finished this quilt!  I have been really enjoying free motion quilting lately.  Especially since I discovered that I can do it without using the foot pedal on my machine!  I was sitting there quilting a couple of weeks ago, thinking "the only thing that would make this better is if I could put my feet up!"  And then I realized that I could :)  My Bernina with the Stitch Regulator lets you press the reverse button and the FMQ starts up.  You just press it again to stop it.  Now I can quilt with my feet up!  I actually find it more relaxing on my shoulders and arms as well!  Yay!!

Sparkle Punch Baby Quilt

I finished a commissioned baby quilt today that I rather like! It is for a friend who wants a gift for a new baby girl. She asked the baby girl's parents what their "colour scheme" was for their daughter's room and they told her, and I quote, "deep reds and tans with an Indo-African influence and lots of white..." Oooookay! So here is what I came up with!

The pattern comes from Elizabeth Hartman on her blog, Oh Fransson! And it's called "Sparkle Punch"! I embroidered the baby girl's name in the bottom corner in red perle cotton on the white section, and the date she was born. The main prints come from Daisy Janie's line, Tilly, and are organic. I had some white in my stash - a cotton sheet - and a little matching brown print, Zen Garden by Patty Young (just one star). The backing is from Urban Chicks, and their Urban Cowgirl line. The binding is a linen I had in my stash, Essex from Robert Kaufman in Putty.

Ruby Tuesday: Part Two

Ruby Tuesday Part One coincidentally fell on a Tuesday with Ruby fabrics, and Ruby Tuesday Part Two has also come on a Tuesday with Ruby fabrics times two! Confused yet?

I had two Ruby charm packs from Moda and so made two sweet baby girl quilts with cheery spring pinwheels. It was snowing this morning, so these quilts are as bright as it gets around here today. I stippled one, and straight line quilted the other. They are both backed with a pink flannel from Valori Wells I found at my LQS on sale. Still need to bind them! I have some solid pink from Kona that will be nice, I think.


It's neat to see the different quilty qualities that show up depending on how the quilt is quilted. YKWIM? Hope your Tuesday is terrific!