Made for Maggie

My cousin had a baby a couple of months ago.

I really wanted to make a quilt to celebrate this new little one.

However, I was in the middle of trying to finish Alec's graduation quilt.

After I finished that quilt we went on vacation.

When we got back I could not stop thinking about a baby quilt.

I wanted to make a quilt similar to the one pictured.

It was made by my great grandmother.

Knowing I didn't have a lot of extra time to spend making it, I compromised.

I made one block but made it large enough to make a quilt.

I've seen other quilters do this for baby quilts, which I also wanted to try.

So I accomplished both goals in one quilt.

:)

I already had the block in my quilting software.

All I did was enlarge it and print my fabric needs.

This was a simple quilt that only took a week to make.

The pinwheel center is set "on point".

AKA it's diagonal.

I had never done that before.

It was easy but I need more practice as I lost a couple of points in the process.

In the quilting world there's a saying, "Done is better than perfect."

There's another saying that's called the 20/20 rule.

If it looks good from 20 feet away going 20 mph, then it's good.

Works for me. I'm still learning.

I loved how fast this quilt came together.

I pieced together some left over fabric for the backing.

I used my new walking foot for some simple straight line quilting.

Since I got the idea for the quilt from great grandma I threw her name on the label too.

 Quilt stats:

39" x 39"

machine pieced & quilted




Maggie on her quilt!
:)