Andy323

YEP...I turned out a quilt top for a baby last night...my favorite pattern for little ones. For one thing, I let the family "decorate the nursery", and I make Floor Quilts. You know, the kind that you throw down for a clean spot to lay the tot on...that way, I get to choose something that I think will be found interesting to a newborn/toddler. The top finishes just under 45", and it allows me to put all of those interesting fabrics that are supposed to be good for infants...black and whites, geometrics...the pattern is called Olivia's Wallhanging and can be found on the Connecting Threads site. This is my go to pattern, all babies get one! And if stitched out of quality fabrics will hold up to lots of washings, as I want to make a quilt that will get used, and still be small enough for a toddler to tote around once they get mobile! I love this pattern!!!! (I do use the technique for hourglass units instead of the triangles for the star point patches. (All square subunits are 4 1/2 unfinished)

MaryStoaks

My neice is having a baby boy in September. I didn't ask anyones preference, I'm making her a blue quilt with trucks embroidered on it. I hope she likes it.

Kate

I just finished my first raggedy quilt. Its Holly Hobby fabric. It was so much fun I am ready to try another one. I will try and post a picture.

JackieG

Many folks seem to be into monkeys and jungle themes lately.

Mamagus

IF I am ever a grandma I will make pretty pastel quilts for the newborns and then brighter ones for them as they grow, but I INSIST that babies and pastels GO TOGETHER!

shopella

I make todler blankets big enough to go over the sides of a crib. Because after baby is so old (wich takes no time at all) The baby blanket goes on the wall and you move up to todler beds.I also like them that sise so you can cover the carier in the winter. well I am a mom hopefully not grandma for at least 5 more years.I love the bright colors with black.I think if I was to make another one it would be black white and red because those are the first colors baby will seeI would use basic shapes and some faces aplicaed on too.Animals with Tan and some pastels like pale pink pale yellow and baby blue in a log cabin with the animals fussie cut for the middle would look really nice!my mom did a log cabin in shades of pink with teady bears on the middle block. she loves it!(I have 5 kids)we are working on a bug in the jar with a black back ground.I don't think anything that you work a whole theme around could be un fasionable, maby not trendy but whatever you do It will look good!

laurac

i made one with appliqued sail boats, fish and waves. put a life preserver ring in the middle and named it the ssdreamer. bright blue, buttery yellow, sage green, light blue and white for squares. boats in those colors plus rust, red and white stripe, turqouise, green and tan little checks. gave it and matching bumper pads to my daughter at her baby shower. her friends are young twenties to older than me. the younger ones especially liked it.

for the 1st grandbaby i made all his crib sheets so i had four large squares of each color or print. i quartered them and backed them with a solid bright blue. quilted fat fish and little fish, waves, water bubbles, and sea grass. that one one a big hit with the same friends too.

i'm a mid 50s grandmother and greatgrandmother. i like pastels if they are very old fashioned prints but mostly go bold colors.

wvdek

Nope, not lately. Don
t go by what's in as much as if I like it and it fits the receiver's personality.

littlehud

I like pink for girls and blue for boys, but the fabric my DD picked out for a baby quilt was bright and primary. She said those are the first colors babies see.

imatopper

I just made a quilt in May for my new grandson. They wanted sock monkey fabrics. My church quilt group makes baby quilts to give at baptisms. We have been using brighter colors lately. Most of us like sewing with the brighter colors so it makes our work enjoyable. Besides, most young parents are decorating in brighter colors.