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Earlier this year we found out our newly wed friends
were expecting a baby!!!
Oh, so excited I was!
After seeing some pictures of their nursery, I tucked the image away in my brain, and a week or so later I hit the fabric store.
I came out with these:
no pattern in mind, only that I'd want to do something simple, as I was ALSO pregnant and .. well, have much less patience and motivation and energy to work on projects than I did before I was with child.. (and taking care of a toddler)
I absolutely LOVED the colors though, and even the clerk ringing me up at the fabric store commented on what GORGEOUS colors I'd picked out. I felt super, SUPER excited..
until I realized some things..
1. I had NO idea what sort of block to do, and was crippled by this...
2. There's other quilters in this family... usually I give quilts and .. its sorta special cause there arent really other quilts.. (ie. I think the dad-to-be's mother is a quilter, and I know one of the mom-to-be's friends has made quilt in the past...)
I had a really really hard time starting on this quilt. In fact it was 6 days before the shower that I finally decided to just cut the fabric up into squares, lay them out randomly and piece together a simple, random quilt.
Random, is not my thing.
In fact, RANDOM is harder than.. pieced orderly blocks for me.
The only way for me to cope was a combination of grabbing two random blocks and sewing them together, and finally laying the whole thing out and making and elaborate chart so I could remember what went where.
almost done with the top!
all done and out of the wash!
I'm really addicted to fleece backing and tie-ing baby quilts. I've heard from some people that they dont last as long as machine quilted quilts, but I gotta tell you, I've washed the fleece backed tied quilt that I made for my daughter SOO MANY times, and its held up better than our bed quilt which is machine quilted and has been only washed a FRACTION of times comparatively.
Overall I was pretty pleased. My biggest failure was not getting better pictures, but the quilt was completed and out of the wash just hours before the shower.
I love making these quick little baby blankets. They usually take less than 5 hours, fit well over those basket type carseats that lift out of the base, are nice and carefree, washable, and SO SOFT!!!
were expecting a baby!!!
Oh, so excited I was!
After seeing some pictures of their nursery, I tucked the image away in my brain, and a week or so later I hit the fabric store.
I came out with these:
no pattern in mind, only that I'd want to do something simple, as I was ALSO pregnant and .. well, have much less patience and motivation and energy to work on projects than I did before I was with child.. (and taking care of a toddler)
I absolutely LOVED the colors though, and even the clerk ringing me up at the fabric store commented on what GORGEOUS colors I'd picked out. I felt super, SUPER excited..
until I realized some things..
1. I had NO idea what sort of block to do, and was crippled by this...
2. There's other quilters in this family... usually I give quilts and .. its sorta special cause there arent really other quilts.. (ie. I think the dad-to-be's mother is a quilter, and I know one of the mom-to-be's friends has made quilt in the past...)
I had a really really hard time starting on this quilt. In fact it was 6 days before the shower that I finally decided to just cut the fabric up into squares, lay them out randomly and piece together a simple, random quilt.
Random, is not my thing.
In fact, RANDOM is harder than.. pieced orderly blocks for me.
The only way for me to cope was a combination of grabbing two random blocks and sewing them together, and finally laying the whole thing out and making and elaborate chart so I could remember what went where.
almost done with the top!
all done and out of the wash!
I'm really addicted to fleece backing and tie-ing baby quilts. I've heard from some people that they dont last as long as machine quilted quilts, but I gotta tell you, I've washed the fleece backed tied quilt that I made for my daughter SOO MANY times, and its held up better than our bed quilt which is machine quilted and has been only washed a FRACTION of times comparatively.
Overall I was pretty pleased. My biggest failure was not getting better pictures, but the quilt was completed and out of the wash just hours before the shower.
I love making these quick little baby blankets. They usually take less than 5 hours, fit well over those basket type carseats that lift out of the base, are nice and carefree, washable, and SO SOFT!!!