Baby Quilt

Of course I forgot to put the label on ... but I can still add that ... I'm going to call this one "Confetti".  The top is made from the leftovers of Playmate.   The back is flannel.

 There are a couple of spots where my points didn't match exactly ... but for a first time HST quilt, I am happy. 

"Confetti" is for sale in my Etsy shop.

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and Michelle's Let's Make Baby Quilts.

Playmate

I've decided to call this quilt "Playmate".  Now I just have to make a label for it.

Sweet Sadie Mae (real name is Sadie Lynn) got a chance to try it out last night.   I got to babysit her for about 8 hours yesterday afternoon/evening while her parents had their first real grownup date in several months. 

Gabbie came over to visit for an hour or so.  Gabbie prefers the smaller polka dots.  She always turns it over to that side. 

And seriously, does life get any better than this?  

Finally Finished!

Notice: This post might be considered picture overload!

 

Way back on June 8th I went shopping looking for fabric for a floor quilt / play mat for Miss Sadie.

 

I found this:

 

 

On June 17th I got the top done:

 

 

Then on June 26th, I did some stitching in the vicinity of the ditch, and some straightish line quilting:

 

 

Last weekend I finally found some great fabric for the binding.  Actually, it's a good thing it took me so long to get around to buying the fabric and binding the quilt because those few short weeks ago I would have never ever considered using striped binding for a dotted quilt!

 

 

And I can't even begin to describe how much I love my wonder clips! 

 

 

Thanks so much to all my blogger friends who post such great projects and share their ideas via tutorials with lots of closeup pics and details - and even a few youtube videos!  I did have to pull out the binding on the first corner ... in spite of fantastic tutorials I still managed to mess up that first corner so it wouldn't fold over and miter correctly.  (I have a really close personal relationship with my seam-ripper!)

 

And now ......

 

It's finished!!

 

 

 

 

I can't wait for Sadie to come visit so she can play on it!

 

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WIP and Other Random Stuff ...

 

I'm gonna start by wishing my daddy a very happy 79th birthday!

 

And that sweet little thing holding his hand is our very favorite work in progress!

 

 

As for quilting WIP's, I'm still on the same one from last week.

 

For quilting, I've just stitched in the vicinity of the ditch.

 

 

But it doesn't look too bad from a distance.

 

 

 

I will add some more quilting since the squares are so large (approx. 8").

 

I'm thinking just more straight(ish) line stitching.

 

And as an added bonus today, I'm going to answer one of life's greatest questions for you.

 

Why are there holes in crocs?

 

 

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Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story and
 WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

 

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Quilt Top Done!

Ok, so is this a WIP or a finsh?  I'll call it both!  Quilt is in progress, but top is finished! :-)

It's not very large - will just fit with crib sized batting.  But it will be for Sadie and she's not even born yet, so I think that will be big enough!

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Moderate Success

I went shopping today to get some fabric for Sadie's play quilt.  I found something similar to what I was looking for.  

Her due date is six weeks from today.  Surely I can do this! 

I'm just going to have to explore the shops online and start purchasing from them.  My local (and by local I mean 30 miles away) store is a Hancock Fabrics, and it has what I used to think was a pretty good selection til I started following quilting blogs and saw all the wonderful collections that are available!  There's also a JoAnn's next to the Hancock, but it's mostly craft stuff, just a little fabric.  

However, I do like to rummage around in the remnant bin at Hancock.  This is what I came up with today.  

The blue puppy dog fabric is flannel, and the pink chick material is fleece.  There is almost a yard of the fleece and I'm sure I can come up with something to do with that for Sadie.  If nothing else I'll make her a little blankie to snuggle with and later to drag around behind her or use on her dolls.  

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