Yay, I finally finished the baby quilt! It’s been washed and dried and all I have to do now is try to pick out the animals hairs and I can give it to the expecting parents (the baby’s due in 1 week).
And here’ s the back of the quilt. I used a flannel with sleeping kittens. I think I have enough flannel left over to make another baby quilt which is perfect because another friend’s baby is due in September.
I finally made a pocket wall board for my craft room. I sewed pockets on canvas and stretched it over a corkboard. Now I don’t have to turn the craft room upside down to look for my scissors!
My old couch pillows were looking a little tired so I thought I’d make some new ones. I really like the charcoal gray linen with Amy Butler’s print. The solid gray pillow is quilted.
Quilting a life sized quilt turns out to be quite different than quilting a little doll quilt. I wasn’t patient enough to baste the quilt or pin it so I just started quilting. It doesn’t help that I used a mix of cottons, poly cottons, and a flannel backing. It seems like everything is stretching differently but so far so good. Here’s what I’ve done with the quilt so far.
I’m using the blue painter’s tape as a guide.
I took today off and I’ve been cutting and sewing all morning. This is the first of many baby quilts to come. I am hoping, HOPING that I’ll finish this quilt by the end of the weekend. So far all the horizontal strips are done. You can see that I’m not a big fan of ironing but I’ll have to do some major ironing before joing the strips together. This quilt is actually going pretty fast because I’m not doing precise cutting or piecing so there are no corners to match up (yay!).
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