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)

Apple Autumn Quilt

For this pattern, I was inspired by Camille Roskelley's quilt "Coming Home" in her book Simplify - which I also used here, but with smaller corner pieces. The quilt is quite simply 5 inch charms with 2.25 inch white squares sewn to the corners. I just started pulling fabrics from my stash and was thrilled when I had everything I needed to finish this quilt in a weekend and get it to its recipient, a dear person in need of some comfort, as soon as I could. I even had backing (half of an Ikea duvet cover)! I never have backing!

Anyways, it finished at 56" by 65", it's quilted in an allover meander on my machine with Aurifil colour 2325 50 wt thread. I experimented with cutting my binding strips at 2" this time rather than 2.25" as I usually do. I love it! The binding is exactly the same width on both sides of the quilt! I will be doing the same from now on. I happen to be partial to a wood grain binding, not sure why, but I have bound about 5 quilts now with wood grain prints.

 Isn't it a great colour palette? My son helped me out and named it "Apple Autumn". I was thinking something like "Indian Summer" but I think "Apple Autumn" is just the right kind of juicy and sweet name.

 Ok, off to stitch a label and make a quilt delivery...

Baby Quilts for Boys!

It started with the plus quilt on the left and ended with the charm quilt on the right... a commission to make a blue and green quilt for a baby boy coming (hope they aren't mad I added gold....)

 

Some wavy line quilting in my usual Aurifil (50 wt in light grey) using a stretched out zig zaggy stitch and my walking foot, plus some scrap-alicious binding...

And then I was reminded of another baby quilt I meant to make!  Some leftover squares from the quilt above (and some others) went so nicely with a few light squares I had left from a S'More Love layer cake from Moda.

This simple quilt needed a little something special in the quilting department, so I happily chose hand quilting.  Not a hard sell to me these days!

Some random lines in colourful perle no. 8 cottons and Aurfil 12 wt. cottons and we are good to go.  (Haha, get it? Go camping?)  Oh, and some wood grain print binding?  Yes, please!

So squishy, so fun to do, so satisfying.... hand quilting.  Try it!

Quilt Stats:

Baby Boy Plus Quilt

Finished dimensions:  29.5" by 38.5"

Fabric: various

Backing: Riley Blake flannel from Hooty Hoot

Binding: various

Batting: Warm & Natural

Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. in light grey

S'more Love Baby Quilt

Finished dimensions:  25" by 34"

Fabric: S'more Love by Moda and various

Backing: Riley Blake flannel from Hooty Hoot

Binding: Faux Bois in Tan by Patty Sloniger

Batting: Warm & Natural

Thread: various colours of Aurifil 12 wt and DMC perle 8.

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".

 

Quilts at Work!

Some quilts in my house doing what they do best, being loved and used. Here they are made into a tent by my 6 year old for my 2 year old to play in.

Max and Whiskers Charm Quilts

Max and Whiskers Charm Quilt Number 1, a photo by Cora Quilts ~ MrsCarla on Flickr.

My little guys needed a couple of quilts to use when they sleepover with Opa and Nana (grandparents) in our guest cabin when they visit! Quilts are so much cozier than sleeping bags!!