Baby Quilt

A baby quilt for a friend/colleague of Geoff's - this is one of my favourite quilt patterns - it's the Peaches & Dreams by Judy Laquidara. Such a simple block, but so effective, whether in coordinated fabrics or like this one, scrappy.  I've made it at least three times, maybe more!

This time, didn't quilt it myself - quilted by Lana Dragicevich at Bewitching Stitching.

 

Start of another baby quilt

This one with an orange/citrus theme - can you tell?

And yet another baby quilt...

This one is for a friend from work, who I haven't seen in ages because of lockdown, but babies won't wait for these things, so she (or he) is going to come anyway...  Last quilt for a while as the next baby on the horizon isn't due until September. Whew!

Another baby quilt

Apparently, baby quilts are like buses: none for ages, then loads come along all at once.  This one is for my nephew and his wife in Australia, who are having a baby boy in July - their first baby. Very exciting!

A pair of baby quilts...

...for a pair of babies - my neighbours were due to have twins in July - identical boys, but the date has been moved forward to this past Friday.  I resisted the temptation to make identical quilts. Partly, I didn't have enough fabric anyway, partly, I don't really go in for that sort of thing.  These were pieced by me, longarm quilted by Lana Dragicevich, who is another neighbour and a mutual friend, then bound by me.

Another baby quilt, quilted

This one was also quilted by Lana; now I just have to attach binding.

Baby quilt, quilted

This top was quilted by my friend Lana, as it's a gift for a mutual friend. I made the top, she quilted it, I'll bind it. 

That's better!

So here is a little top made from the leaders & enders blocks - I changed the layout of the individual blocks and the arrows really come through now, which is much more what I wanted in the first place.  This can go in my baby quilt top stack - I've got a few coming up this summer which need to get finished...

Baby quilt top 2

The other top from the blocks I made the other day. This one and the other one with similar colours are being set aside as gifts. Lots of people I know are having babies this year!

More baby quilt blocks

Here is another set of blocks - this one a rail fence set - in similar colours.  Bright, fun, baby colours, not pale pastels. Not a big fan of the pastel coloured baby quilt.  At some point, I'll get these together into a top. No huge rush, as all the babies coming up aren't due until July.

Baby quilt top

Here's the assembled top from the blocks from the other day. This will be put to the side and quilted later. And I'll work on another set of blocks - I actually know of about four babies being born in July that I will want to make quilts for - good to get started in advance...

What? More sewing?

Yep.  Made some more blocks this weekend - there are actually 36 of these, with 6 of each colour (different fabrics, though) - perhaps over the coming week, where I have the week off, I'll get them assembled into a top.  It's almost like I'm actually a quilter again.

Top's all together

Well, those blocks I was working on last weekend, I finished this weekend, and put together into a nice top for a baby quilt.  Next step will be to quilt it, but not for a little while yet.  If this keeps up, people will think this is a quilting blog...

A bit of sewing

A couple of people I know are having babies later this year, so I thought I'd get ahead of things by starting on some little quilt tops now. I won't say too much in case they are watching...

Didn't quite get these blocks finshed, as you can see, but it's not far off. Perhaps tomorrow!

Finished baby quilt

Not the best photo - the border fabric is a strong reddish orangeish brown.  Too sunny for much contrast, I guess.

Baby quilt, part 1

This was a top which had been hanging around for a while. My mother's neighbour in the US recentyl had a baby, so I thought I'd make a quilt as a gift - they kind of keep an eye on her a bit, which is really nice of them. 

Luckily, I have my quilt group this week, so I should be able to get the binding stitched down. 

Remake for a friend

A friend of mine partly made this small baby quilt a few years back but never finished it. She now has an occasion to gift the quilt and asked if I'd be able to quilt it up for her (it was partly quilted with some very tiny SITD quilting) and bind it.

As I couldn't remove the previous stitching without damaging the fabric, I just left it and did a little all over loopy meander. 

Batik Baby Quilt Finished

And here's the finished baby quilt, bound and ready to go off to its new owner. Yay!

Baby quilts are like buses...

none for ages, then several come along at once.  This one is for a work colleague - this time, making use of a top that's been around for a while.  Quilted simply with a wavy line with loops.

And finally, finished Birdy Baby Quilt

And here's the finished thing - looks sweet, doesn't it!