Rainbow Charm Baby Quilts

What can I say?  I had a craving for nice and simple squares in a rainbow of colour.  I cut piles and piles of squares at 4.5" each from my stash and scraps.  Backed with flannel and machine quilted in straight lines, both of these are so cuddly and such a bright shot of joy.   These are now for sale in my Etsy shop.

I had to share some Instagram pictures, as my little son joined me one day when I began these quilts and sweetly drew his own charm quilt designs in my notebook, and then helped be a quilt "holder" with his bigger brother so I could share my work in progress on Instagram.

QUILT STATS:

Fabrics: 4.5" squares from my stash and scraps

Batting: Warm & Natural

Backing: Riley Blake flannel

Binding: Scrappy (quilt 1) and Navy Oval Elements (quilt 2)

Thread: Aurifil 50 wt for piecing and quilting

Dimensions: 38" by 50" (quilt 1) and 38" by 38" (quilt 2)

Sunshine and Showers Baby Quilt

Oooh, I like this one. My first foray into *LOW VOLUME* (for the background!).  I have to jump on the bandwagons, it's the only way I get out.  It was fun to make too, once I sorted out how to construct the blocks the way I wanted to!! Like this:

Back in November, I began with gusto and my blocks startled me when after constructing many, many, they all flipped *themselves* around like this:  The one on the left is whackadoo.  The one on the right is *perfect*.

Naughty little things. Some seam ripping... what am I saying... I just tore those little suckers apart and we were back in business.

And here you are! I'm pleased with the cheerful name I picked. And I think I must be loooonging for Spring, or something.

 

I used a nice snuggly flannel on the back, from Riley Blake's Hooty Hoot line:

  And I went bold with the binding, a Kona cotton solid in....hmm. Not sure. But purple.

  I pieced and quilted it all in Aurifil 50 wt in white. As I do. Hopefully this will brighten further some rainbow baby's arrival, or add joy to a nursery wall (but who would put something snuggly up where it can't be touched...!!)  At any rate, it's for sale in my shop!

 

American Jane Tumbler Baby Quilt Number 2

This isn't the first tumbler quilt I've made with the fabulous American Jane fabrics! And it may not be the last! The super sweet simplicity of tumblers are great with Sandy Klop's sweet fabric. This is the one I finished today: I seem to be adding hand quilting to about every little baby quilt I make these days, and this one is no different :)

I made the binding a little differently this time, inspired by one of my favourite places to be inspired: Instagram! A couple of folks, namely @craft_addict and @patchworkplus, were binding their quilts in this funky way, which was exactly like I had been binding so far (see Heather Bailey's tutorial here). However, when it came to hand-stitching the binding down, instead of using invisible ladder stitches, they were using big, visible hand stitches right on top of the binding!

One lady sewed hers to the front and did these stitches on the back, and the other sewed the binding to the back and hand stitched it to the front. This is what I chose to do, I thought it would be fun to echo the line of hand quilting all around the quilt. I used Auriful thread in 28 wt, which was just the right amount of heft.

Here are the details:

Fabrics: American Jane's line Peas & Carrots. The border is Kona Orange, backing is an orange pezzy print, and binding is from Fox Trails line of fabric by Doohicky Designs
Thread: Aurifil 50 wt in 2000 for piecing and 2150 for machine quilting (a burnt orange, I quilted 1/4 inch from the seams)
Hand quilting: DMC perle cotton in size 8 in yellow (743), colour and Aurifil 28 wt. thread in an orange (1133)
Size: 36" by 44"
Batting: Warm & Natural Completed July 2013

For sale in my Etsy shop!

Etsy Shop Update

I added a couple of quilts to my etsy shop

So far, I have sold one since I opened at the beginning of the month.  And another quilt I pulled from the shop to donate to a fundraising auction in our community.

Verna Granny Square Baby Quilt

Verna quilt is washed and crinkly and listed in my shop!

Etsy Shop Open!

I have added some inventory to my Etsy shop! Come take a look. I will be adding more quilts during the summer. Watch for my Minecraft Creeper quilts for sale soon! Here are a few of the baby quilts available right now: