#3: Rylee's Quilt

 The next baby to be born was Rylee.  I had found the backing for this quilt at Hobby Lobby and fell in love with it.  I knew just who to give it to if she had a girl, and luckily she did!

The layout of this quilt is kind of a mini version of  Hannalee's Flower quilt.  I love doing the appliqué owl and birds and they turned out just as cute on this quilt.  One of my favorite blocks is still the Ohio Star so I had to keep that too.  Also, pinwheels just scream baby girl to me. :)  The last row I actually made two versions of.  I wasn't sure I liked it so I inversed it to have the color be where the white is and have the bigger sections be white.  That didn't turn out very cute, so I  stuck with the original block.  I like it now, it grew on me.

 I quilted each row based on the block.  But my favorite quilting thing is the clouds.  Don't you love them?!

Stats:
50" x 60"
Started: February 2014
Finished: April  2014
Machine quilted by me.
For: Rylee (Aimee's new baby girl)

#2: Teegan's Quilt

The next baby that was born, was Teegan.  Here is her quilt.

I had seen the main panel print when it was first released and loved it.  But I didn't buy it then, luckily.  Later I came across it in the clearance section of my favorite shoppe.  Later I found the zig-zag print, also in the clearance section.  Then I was able to purchase a charm pack from that line of print on clearance months later!  So in recap I found all of the fabric on clearance over about a years span! What luck!

I created the pattern based on the fabrics and I adore how it turned out.  I would do the same pattern many times over.  It was so fun!

I backed the quilt with minki, my new favorite thing to do.  Then I quilted the zig-zags with zig-zags (LOVE IT!)  and did an all over stipple on the panel piece.

I decided to crochet an bunny to go with it.  And believe it or not, this is my own pattern!  I now can't for the life of me remember how I did it, but it turned out very cute.

Stats:
50" x 60"
Started: February 2014
Finished: April  2014
Machine quilted by me.
For: Teegan (Cindee's new baby girl)

#1: Walter's Quilt

 Like I said, it is a baby boom around my neighborhood.  Here is the blanket for Baby Walter born a week ago. 

I am very happy with the way it turned out, especially because it had a rocky beginning.  My first design for it included a herringbone strip.  I sewed all the strips together, cut it diagonally and was furiously annoyed at how off it was.  So, it ended up in the garbage. (Which was depressing since it took a few hours to accomplish this disaster!)  Herringbone...never again.

Well, the baby was born and the quilt wasn't even started.  I switched gears to a very simple design.  As it turns out, I love simple. Not just because I was able to put it together in under a week, but because simple is fun to.  I just love the crispness of it.  Also, deep inside I have a love for simple squares.

I quilted three lines in the sashing and love how it turned out.

I had this fabric picked out for when my little boy was born, but never got around to making it into a quilt.  (Which is fine because he didn't need another baby blanket.)  When my neighbor told me she was having a boy I knew I wanted to use this fabric.  And I had recently gotten hooked on crocheting again.  I found the cutest dinosaur pattern on Etsy.  It wasn't my favorite thing to crochet, but he turned out so cute.  My little boy is kinda in love with him.  I'll defiantly need to make another one.

Stats:
50" x 50"
Started: March 25, 2014
Finished: April 1, 2014
Machine quilted by me.
For:Walter (Aleece's new baby boy)

Sneak Peek

Look what I've been working on.... I'm really in love with it.  It is going to be hard to give away. :)

The Striped Giraffe Quilt (Ellie's Quilt)

My first finish of 2014 was actually started in 2014.  

My favorite kind of quilt to make is a baby quilt.  They are fun and bright, the fabrics for babies are adorable, they come together so quickly, I can easily quilt them, and they are less expensive.  Lucky for me, I have a ton of baby quilts to make in the next few months.  It seems like everyone I know is pregnant right now. This quilt is the first of at least 5 that I will be making.

My mom's childhood friend's son, Chase and his wife Amy, are expecting their first, a little girl they will name Ellie.

 

A local quilt shoppe went out of business, so I was able to find this cute bright giraffe fabric.  The reason this fabric originally caught my eye was because it had giraffes.  I like giraffe fabric because it matches my new hobby, arigami.

I am totally addicted to making these.  I have also learned to make other animals which will be given with the other quilts I am working on.

 Back to the quilt.  I used a pattern called Back to School by Cluck Cluck Sew.  I love the look of the pattern and quilt, but this was not my favorite pattern to make.  I decided to use minky for the inlaid squares...BAD idea.  Minky stretches, moves and just doesn't stay put.  It made my rows kind of squirmy and hard to get strait and even.  With it all finished and quilted I like it, but if you asked me halfway through, I hated this quilt ;).  The great thing about the quilt though, is that all the fabrics came from my stash!  (Yeah! Because that is one of my goals for 2014: use fabrics from my stash.)

Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: January 2014
Finished: January 2014
Machine quilted by me.
For: Chase Gardner's Baby, Ellie

Polka Dot Starburst Quilt

 Last Spring I fell in love with a fabric.  (I know, surprise, surprise.)  But the fun thing was, it had corresponding colors in polka dots!  I was in a polka dot faze.  Then only a week later one of my favorite bloggers released this design.  The freaky thing was she used the same colors that I already had picked out for this quilt.  It was like she read my mind and created a design just for me. :)

What a fun quilt to make!  I really enjoyed the process.  And loved how it turned out.

Originally I was going to quilt it similarly to how Megan quilted her's.  I even quilted 3 blocks like she did.  But I just wasn't feeling it.  It looked cool, but it wasn't giving the quilt the effect that I wanted.  I think the close together stait-line quilting I was doing at first didn't make the quilt very soft and snuggly looking.So I did what any rational quilter would do...I brought out my unpicker. :0)  Now this was no sit down and watch a movie process. It took my about 3 movies to unpick it. (No not consecutive, I have kids for heavens sake.)

I decided to quilt 1/4" away from the outside star and the inside star.  Nailed it! That was the effect I wanted.

 Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: 2013
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For:?? Do you want to buy it??

Topsy Turvey Turtles

I have had this turtle fabric for a couple of years knowing that I would create an original design for a baby quilt.  Then this summer, my husband's friend from work announced that they were having a baby boy.  I was so excited to get to work designing this quilt.

Originally I had wanted to to a lot of the circles into turtles.  But adding the tiny turtle head, legs, and tail was not very fun nor easy... So I ended up with only two turtles on the whole quilt.  But I really like it that way.

The turtles are so cute!

I quilted 1/4" away from the circles going vertically with an indent on each horizontal row.

Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: Summer 2013
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For: Kort's baby boy