A new baby great-niece needed a new quilt and even tho by now she had added several months to her age, I found fabric I loved and chose it for her quilt. Part of it came from a store gift certificate that I had been awarded accidently by the change of one character in our usernames. However, I still found something to fulfil the gift certificate and quite a bit more so all were winners on that part! This is what I chose.
I chose the spool block from the AccuQuilt system that makes quick and accurate cutting work for me. Here are all the HSTs made and the blocks laid out for assembly line sewing. Just 9 blocks but many pieces.
Blue stars & pink and red spools.
I decided to use leftover pieces for an artistic (random) border and used filler fabrics so it all fit together. Pink swans for the outer border.
The flimsy top top needed quilted and now to play with thread.
The quilted and washed top. Striped binding – my favorite!
Close-ups …
The texture…..
I used Sue Heinz’ circle maker for the circles and wreath areas that I then used as guidelines to place the quilting. It is unique, adds another element of design to the angular piecing and is just plain fun to fill in with freehand quilting. I pull that tool as often as I can on my personal quilts.
When the quilt arrived to her owner, I received this back in return! A tiny one sitting to read on her quilt!
And as she grows (and I delay my blogging) Miss #4 in this household, still enjoys reading on her quilt! I think she looks like a precious doll! In fact, I named this the Reading Quilt because so many of her photos show her reading! What great fun!!
I chose to make all my great-nieces & great-nephews quilts and now as of this writing (12/17) I have one nearly 18 months and another 8 months and a negative 4 months!! Oh dear!! So much work and not enough pleasure sewing.
When this one received her quilt, the others brought out their quilts for a photo op as well. Melted my heart. All my quilts plus one from a great-aunt on the other side. 🙂 These kids should be cozy! I hope they know they are well-loved! Maybe we great-aunts could have given them a gift card to welcome their birth but I doubt they’d be loving the gift card like this. ♥
and sew on... 