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| The Little Plus Baby Quilt, and at last, open water! |
A friend had a little baby boy, and I wanted to create a little quilt for him. I have been working to organize my stash and have a box of 5 inch square pieces. I pulled out blue, yellow and red baby scraps, and tried to decide what would work.
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| My box of 5 inch squares. Some are older Aunt Grace fabrics, and the three little pigs fabric that has been used in many earlier baby quilts! |
Last year, I made a
plus quilt for my son out of left-over homespun, and decided that would work for this little quilt. Since I didn't have 5 squares of each scrap, so I needed to color a graph to figure out what I really needed.
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| My little chart. It turns out I like using colored pencils to plan! |
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| Since this was a small quilt, I just put the squares on the dining room table. |
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| I love yellow binding and I love my new Clover clips. I used my walking foot and quilted straight lines alternating with curvy lines at about 1/2 inch intervals. |
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| The finished quilt, with my trusty quilt holder! The finished quilt is about 31 x 40. |
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| The back is a sweet blue fabric I have had for ages. |
This little baby boy has a big sister. I decided to send along a little bag, using some of the same fabrics, along with some more girly coordinating squares. My stash busting efforts also include cutting 2 1/2 inch strips. I pulled out some of those to cut 40 little squares.
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| I sewed the little charm squares together to make a rectangle. I added some florals as well. |
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| I quilted the rectangles with my walking foot, at quarter inch intervals from the seams. |
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| The back of the quilting. |
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| I used the same fabric from the quilt back for the inside lining on the bag. |
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| A close up of this sweet little bag. |
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| I think the quilt and the bag look so cute together. |
Glad that spring is here after a long rough winter.
Take care,
Gretchen
