Pond Scene Baby Quilt for my new Niece!
 

Finished this baby quilt in March for my niece, thought I'd share it with all of you. I made it before I bought my sewing machine, so every last stitch is hand-done. I didn't quilt it, just tied it every 4" or so. I designed the scene all by myself, made the patterns, and everything except the sky, grass, and pond is appliqued with a hidden stitch. I added batting underneath the animals to make them puff out. The back is a super soft blanket flannel from Joann's, but I forget the name of it (not shown). The animals have little felt eyes and mouths, and the dragonfly's wings are organza (and I embroidered her legs on!). I lost count of number of fabrics...i think it's around 20. The lighting in this photo makes it look all washed out, but it's much more colorful in person. And it's very square (my SIL is holding the blanket over the baby that's still incubating in this photo), not like it looks in the picture. I was really proud of it! It's got a double layer of batting for extra weight and warmth in these cold upstate NY winters :)

Too cute! Great job, and thanks for sharing the photo.

Very cute!

Fantastic! you did a great job :)

Fantastic job! I LOVE your design....so so cute!

Darling quilt, you did a great job.

Very cute-nice job!

great job its very cute!!!!

Great job. Too cute!!!!

Thanks for sharing! That is a great quilt.

cute... is it an original pattern?

It is an original pattern. I made it in powerpoint out of simple shapes so it wouldn't get too burdensome to applique. I used the shapes to make a picture that I thought was cute, then I made patterns out of the shapes that I used (scaled to the right size, of course). :)

Very ute! Thanks for sharing.

Really sweet!

How awesome!!! You are an art quilter!

It's an adorable quilt!! You did a fantastic job on it
and I'm sure that baby will love it. Yay for you!!!

adorable quilt

Very sweet!!!

This is tooooooo cute!!, love it!

That is so cute. What a great learning tool for a little one...

Absolutely adorable just love it, great job and thank you for sharing.
Have a Blessed day
Ellen

Thanks! I used different simple shapes and lots of colors for that very reason!

A true labor of love!! That's the cutest quilt ever!! :)

That is so cute! You did a great job on it.

Wonderful quilt! Congrats on a new machine.

this is just adorable! Great job on the design & putting it all together, too.

Nice baby quilt. You put a lot of work into it, that's obvious. When you mentioned upstate NY, I thought 'What part of upstate?' As you know a lot of people in NY claim they're upstate. I live near you. Going to send a pm.

Just Adorable. Love the smiling turtle and duck in pond with flowers! Great Job!

Lucky baby, great quilt

so adorable!!!...i love it and i'm sure she will too!

That is so cute!! What fun to do too! Thanks for sharing. :0)

Great quilt.

How neat is this quilt.
It's happy, happy

This is so clever, babies will love looking at the different foul and flies. Good job I'll have to remember this . Thanks for sharing.

Wow! What a great job. I really like it.

Very cute for baby. Really like it and you did a great job on it.

What a precious quilt and you did a fantastic job!

It is darling! Would love to make this for Project Linus charity quilt. You should write up the pattern!

Soooo cute..