A Finish!

Finished my little baby quilt

Absolute pleasure to finish. There is something so satisfying about throwing a quilt together out of 'nothing'. I found this fabric in my stash recently and thought it was a pity to let it go to waste. You probably cannot see this, but it has basket balls in the red and green squares - I even forgot why I bought this. I also had some pre-cut squares leftover from a different project, so I did not need to go looking for additional fabric. And the binding...I have used the blue dotty binding fabric for some years by now...sets it off nicely and now I only have a little bit left. Can't believe how long some of this fabric has lasted. Backing was also sourced from the stash...just some white fabric with some pale stars on it. Perfect.
Even the wadding is bitses. Used the tape to put two pieces together and presto...done! This quilt has a lovely feel to it, as I used wool wadding which made it just the right amount of puffiness.

The quilting was done with an Aurifil 50/2 variegated pale yellow thread. Unfortunately you cannot see the colour differentiation, but I think it looks nice and just lifts the whole thing up a bit as every square is slightly different. For the quilting I went with straight lines just using the edge of my sewing foot as a guide...approx. 3/8" away from the seam. Did not go for the 1/4" echo as this would have highlighted the shadow from some of the darker fabric underneath.
I have a recipient in mind, however do not know yet whether they are having a boy or a girl, so just need to wait for a moment.

Now back to what I was actually working on...need to finish off some FMQ on another quilt.

Karin

A little baby quilt

The other day I finally cleaned up a bit and went through my stash...OMG...found a lot of things that I had already forgotten about...amongst lots of other things, some baby quilt fabric. Looking at it, I thought that this was a pity to just let go to waste or worse still, use it up for some of my practice runs in FMQ (which I had already done with one part of the fabric). Also found a whole stack of white pre-cut squares that must have been left over from a previous quilt. Perfect opportunity to use my new gadget

If you love chain-piecing as much as I do, you need to get one! This is the thread cutter I got from the Fatquartershop the other day...I got the one where you can exchange the blade once it dulls. Relatively inexpensive, this makes the job of cutting the stack of completed units in a matter of seconds. Really useful gadget.

Anyway, here is the completed quilt top

How cute is this...literally thrown together out of of a few pieces of fabric (should come out at 36"x 42"). Nice little quilt for a boy (the darker fabric has little baseballs on it). Not sure how to quilt it yet...maybe just some lines 1/4" away from the seams to accentuate the squares.

Linking up to Let's Bee Social over at Lorna's Sew Fresh Quilts

Karin