I'm so excited to finally share this post!
I started working on these quilts a while ago.
These were some of my secret quilting projects.
Every quilt has a story and I love this one.
When I first heard of this young couple's expecting, I knew I had to make a quilt.
(Like I need an excuse to make one.)
I decided on a double Irish chain pattern early on.
Then I had the idea of making two quilts, one pink and one blue.
Once I found out what they were having, I labeled the appropriate quilt for them.
The other quilt was made on behalf of the baby this couple miscarried and
will be donated to a local charity.
In the future, whenever I make a baby quilt for someone,
I want to make a second one for charity.
These are quilt finishes 12 and 13.
The pink one finished at 61 1/2" x 40 3/4"
and the blue one at 60" x 40 1/2"
They are machine pieced and quilted.
I really enjoyed making these quilts.
They came together rather quickly.
Yes, there's a lot of pictures.
These were some of my secret quilting projects.
Every quilt has a story and I love this one.
When I first heard of this young couple's expecting, I knew I had to make a quilt.
(Like I need an excuse to make one.)
I decided on a double Irish chain pattern early on.
Then I had the idea of making two quilts, one pink and one blue.
Once I found out what they were having, I labeled the appropriate quilt for them.
The other quilt was made on behalf of the baby this couple miscarried and
will be donated to a local charity.
In the future, whenever I make a baby quilt for someone,
I want to make a second one for charity.
These are quilt finishes 12 and 13.
The pink one finished at 61 1/2" x 40 3/4"
and the blue one at 60" x 40 1/2"
They are machine pieced and quilted.
I really enjoyed making these quilts.
They came together rather quickly.
Yes, there's a lot of pictures.
Boring stuff first.
I learned how to strip piece with these quits.
This is one example of the strip sets I sewed.
This particular one was cut and used to make four patch squares.
It makes the piecing go faster.
The piles of my sub-cut strip pieces.
All ready to sew together into blocks.
The entire quilt only uses two kinds of blocks.
Both quilt tops were done in no time.
I didn't realize until after I sewed these together that they were larger than crib sized quilt batting.
So rather than buy two twin sizes, I got a queen and cut what I needed.
It worked out great!
All quilted and ready for binding.
These are the first quilts that I got beautifully mitered corners on all four corners on both quilts!
Go me!
Enough about me and what I learned while doing these quilts.
Time for the picture overload.
While I pretty much did these quilts simultaneously, the blue one was completed first.
I always do a photo shoot with my quilts.
However, I didn't pay attention to how dry the grass was when I took photos of the blue one.
We got some much needed rain between quilt finishes.
So the pink one has a nice green grass background.
And you'll notice I had a few helpers with the pink quilt.
I used the same gray and white chevron backing on both quilts. It worked out quite nicely!
(On a silly side note, sometimes I use my in-laws clothes line to take my quilt pics. That's their hands holding the pink quilt... it was breezy.)
:)
:)
Quilt helper number one.
Helpers one and two.
(That chicken, Juanita, escapes the run all the time.
See the diagonal support post in the background?
She shimmies up it and hops over the fence.
At least she lays her egg in the chicken coop so we can find it.
Silly chicken.)
Daisy was helper number three.
Tank, helper four, was camera shy.
(I think it was because he was grumbling at the chicken...
never a dull moment.)
Every quilter should be blessed with this many "helpers"!
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Here's the beautiful mom-to-be with her quilt!
Here she is with the charity quilt.
