Bri's Baby Quilt

I am so excited I can finally share this quilt. I made this for my cousin Bri's soon to be new baby! I made this a few months ago and had a lot of fun with it. As soon as she told us it was a girl, I got going! The funny thing is when I gave it to her at the baby shower last weekend, she asked how I knew she was doing purple and greens with butterflies as her theme. Answer, I had no idea! I just believe that means it was meant to be! 

I used a charm pack that I had on hand. This quilt went along very well with my goal to use up my precuts this year. I am slowly making my way through them. 

The backing was a velvet type material that someone had given me. I wasn't sure how well it was going to quilt up, but I love the results. It is super soft and the quilting shows up great on it! 

I am glad to finally share this and have a lot more coming up. I have 3 scrappy quilts going (another goal is using up my scrap stash), a few table runners for my shop, and a few odds and ends projects. It's a great week for me to sew and catch up because we are supposed to be getting some more snow! 

Olivia's Quilt

My cousin had asked me a few months back if she sent me some baby clothes of Olivia's (her daughter) if I could make a quilt out of them. Of course I have never done this, but I am always game for a new challenge. I did a little research and dove in! After cutting all the seams out of the clothes (which of course makes me very nervous seeing as I am cutting up someones precious memories, so don't screw it up!), I added interfacing to each piece. Turned out it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. It took me a few hours to get each piece ready to square up and cut. Then it was time to decide the layout. She had sent me a picture of one she liked that had all different size squares. That actually worked out great because each article of clothing came out to a different size and I wanted to utilize all I could. 

I was able to use up almost every single piece she sent me! I only had a few little scraps leftover, which is always good. I was concerned about the stretchy quality of the clothing with quilting, but with the interfacing it didn't pose an issue at all. She liked the all over stipple quilting design so that's what I did. I think it gave it a great texture! 

I love my labels I got off Etsy

I hope Olivia and Alyssa both enjoy this quilt and now she has a great way to cherish her baby clothes! I loved this project so much I would definitely do it again. I feel more confident also when it comes working with the different materials. 

I have now caught up on projects for everyone else as of today (that won't last long though, which is always OK with me) so I am going to pull out a UFO and see if I can make some headway on it. It's my string quilt that is using up more of my scrap stash! :) 

A Very Busy January

  Looking back through all my pictures of projects, I realized I had a very productive January. I cannot believe it is already February! I was always told when I was little that as you got older time went faster. Of course back then I never believed it, but now I sure do. At least with time going by so fast I did get a lot done in it. Here are some of my projects from last month. 

Disappearing 9 Patch Table Runner (listed on Etsy)

Shamrock Table Runner (also on Esty store)

Valentines Table Runner (also on Etsy store)

Wonky Star Baby Quilt (on Etsy)

Charm Pack Baby Quilt (gifted)

Back of gifted baby quilt

Close up of the quilting :) 

 I really enjoyed all of these projects. I have been trying to work on a few things to put up in my shop, but I just haven't had that much down time. I have had a few customer quilts to get quilted, custom orders, and of course every day life happens. The baby quilt that I gifted was a fun one to quilt. I love when I am doing something to gift because I get to do anything I want with it! I did swirls and pebble quilting on the squares and on each border I made wavy lines. The borders almost looked like they had ribbon around them! I loved it! I also made another baby quilt to gift, but I haven't gifted it yet so I can't share it.

February is already shaping up to be just as productive. I finished up my scrappy double Irish chain top, caught up on my row along sampler with my online sewing group, posted the February heart block for the calendar quilt, and I am almost done getting instructions set up for the March block. I also have another custom quilt to do for my cousin out of her daughter's baby clothes. It will be a first for me on something like that so it should be fun! Hopefully this week I can get together with my sewing girls here and see their February blocks!