A Little Plus Baby Quilt and a Little Bit More

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. 

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.  

My little chart.  It turns out I like using colored pencils to plan!

Since this was a small quilt, I just put the squares on the dining room table. 

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.

The finished quilt, with my trusty quilt holder!   The finished quilt is about 31 x 40.

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.

I sewed the little charm squares together to make a rectangle.  I added some florals as well.

I quilted the rectangles with my walking foot, at quarter inch intervals from the seams.

The back of the quilting.

I used the same fabric from the quilt back for the inside lining on the bag.

A close up of this sweet little bag.

I think the quilt and the bag look so cute together.   

     Glad that spring is here after a long rough winter.

Take care,
Gretchen