Some Baby Quilt Finishes

Baby boy owl quilt - SOLD

Soul Blossoms baby quilt - SOLD

Pieced back on Soul Blossoms baby quilt

Very Hungry Caterpillar baby quilt - SOLD

Back of Very Hungry Caterpillar baby quilt

Plus baby quilt - Available to purchase here

Truck Stop Quilt

Back in August last year I had one of my previous customers contact me and ask if I made single bed size quilts. She had previously purchased two baby quilts from me for her son and now needed a king single bed size quilt for when he moves into a big bed. Having only made one bed size quilt before, I was a bit hesitant. 

However, as she had purchased from me before, twice, the fact that she is great to work with as she knows exactly what she wants, and it was going to be a simple pattern, I said that I would make it for her.

She chose this gorgeous rare print, Truck Stop by Alexander Henry Fabrics, and the co-ordinating dot print. I then went and matched other prints in blues and greens as requested.

Solid border in Kona Navy and navy and white stripe binding. The back is a wide backing fabric in cream picked up from my local quilt shop. It matches perfectly with the colour of the Truck Stop fabric.

This is the first quilt that I have sent to be quilted on a longarm. As I only do straight line quilting at the moment (I WILL learn to free motion quilt this year!) and I was dreading the idea of wrestling this through the sewing machine, I decided to get it professionally quilted. This was definately the right decision. Sandi at TLC Quilts did a fantastic job. We chose a pattern that looks like a giant tyre track. Very fitting for this quilt.

 

It was collected this morning and I know it will be loved. Linking up with Quokka Quilts for TGIFF.

Scrappy Zoo Baby Quilt

My Aunty Ann was expecting her second Grandson on the 14th January and asked me if I could make a quilt, bunting and fabric covered wipes container for her to gift. 

 The brief was that it had to co-ordinate with this little play gym that she had bought for him.

Using all scraps except for two fat quarters that I already had in my stash, I think I nailed it. I kept to the zoo/jungle animal theme and used only the colours that were on the play gym.

The backing and binding fabrics I picked up from Spotlight in their clearance section. 

This quilt turned out better than I even hoped it would and I just love it. I think I'm definately going to have to make some more scraps baby quilts like this. 

I used the Oh Fransson! Charm Squares Baby Quilt pattern. Always quick and easy, especially when you do straight line quilting.

My mum (the bunting queen) made the bunting. Thanks Mum x

I did have a fabric covered baby wipes container made up but the day before I was to deliver it there was an unfortunate incident with said container and a cup of tea. Needless to say, I have to make it again.

Let's finish with another shot of the bunting hanging in Mum's beautiful garden because, as she says "bunting makes me happy" :)

Truck Stop Quilt (Work In Progress)

I finished the top for a custom order last week. It's a king single bed size quilt for a little boy. His mum chose this fantastic out of print fabric, Truck Stop by Alexander Henry Fabrics, and the co-ordinating blue dot fabric. We have matched this with blues and greens to suit his bedroom. She also wanted a large navy border so I went with Navy Kona (which looks a lot lighter in this photo than it actually is). 

I'm thinking navy and white stripe binding and a pieced back with the leftover fabrics. Just waiting on confirmation. Now to work out how to quilt it....

Blowing away in the wind

Choc Mint Baby Quilt

Earlier this year I had a request from a friend for some custom bunting. Green, cream and brown for a baby boy's room. 

A few weeks back my friend contacted me again to request a playmat for her darling boy that he can also use as a quilt later on when he gets bigger. She wanted the same fabrics as her bunting. 

 

I used these fabrics along with some new prints that co-ordinated nicely. 

 A plain cream back was chosen. I used Prima Homespun 'Seeded' for a natural look. 

It turned out beautifully and has inspired me to plan some similar quilts to make in the future.

Fabric Play

Auditioning some fabrics for a custom order I am making. The main fabric will be the out of print "Truck Stop" by Alexander Henry Fabrics along with the co-ordinating blue dot fabric on the right.