Need inspiration
 

Last year I made 20 twin size quilts last year and not two of them the same. I have a baby quilt to make for a niece. She wants light greens and blues. I am brain dead. Please help me come up with ideas.

I'm doing a disappearing 9 patch with I spys, white sashing, and green accent blocks for a baby quilt right now.

There are many simple quilt patterns you could use: Rail Fence, Warm Wishes, Jelly Roll Race (baby quilt size), log cabins of every configuration, chevron quilts made of HSTs, and on and on and on. Just choose light green and blue fabrics. And then there are all the ways you could use scraps!

But here's a different idea: My "signature" baby quilt has become a very simple, straightforward I Spy. While it took me a little while to collect all the fabrics I have today (during which time I cut up a number of multi-animal prints, etc. - and still think that's a great way to go), I now have 80+ unique images that I draw from. Some are fussy-cut; some are not.

I cut 4 1/2" squares. Each quilt contains 80 squares. Lately I've been backing the quilts with Minky (and no batting) and tying them. Needless to say, there are many alternatives!

My daughter is a psychiatrist who specializes in children, and she was the one who encouraged me to produce these quilts. Another friend, a life-long teacher, concurred, adding that such a quilt could be an important vocabulary builder.

Just my $.02

Thank you.

I think this might be the pattern Tartan is referring to http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/d...html?idx=25880
http://www.quiltstgeorge.com/module/...?classId=90653

I have 2 "go-tos" for kids/babies. I like to make a circular play mat using a 10 degree long ruler (and my pie pan for the center circle) or an ISpy quilt. I buy the 10" sq package of ISpy fabrics from Mo. Star Quilt Co and cut into 4th--so 4 5" sq per piece and that give you 40 different sqs--and also I can get 4 quilts from one ISpy layer cake if I also add other juvenile and novelty fabrics to the mix. My son says he and g-boys "read" the quilts the last thing before light out at night.

It's on sale too. If anyone is interested in this pattern, the magazine (print or digital) this pattern is in, is on sale for a few days for $2.10, pattern is $7.99. (Sorry, just the bargain hunter in me!)

This makes an interesting baby quilt and would look good in 2 colors. You just need 6 FQ plus borders.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=33vvUvwBzJk

I think the hardest quilt for me to make was for one of my great nieces. The mother wanted yellow & green and I couldn't get enthused about the colors but I appliqued a lamb from white on a green field with a blue sky & butterflies & flowers. 14 years later she brought her quilt to a family reunion because she couldn't sleep without it. That made it all worth while.