Ideas for a baby quilt
 

I need to start a baby quilt for my sister's daughter. please send Ideas to this post I want something not to complicated but cool. thanks

I made a baby quilt a couple of months ago for my sister's co-worker's baby shower. I had purchased a panel at an estate sale. I just sandwiched the panel, and did simple quilting on it.

At this point, they knew it was a boy and what they were going to name him. What I did to make it special is make a label that said,bkay

Put the name: Speedy Baby 2 quilt pattern in your search bar and you will find the free pattern. Fun to make with charm squares that are already cut out for you.

Go to Allpeoplequilt.com for more free baby quilt patterns. I love the new pattern: Stary Dust baby.
Have fun

I just made a baby quilt using the zipper quilt design from Missouri Star. I had only a month between learning that my grand niece was having a baby and the shower date, and this was absolutely the fastest, easiest design ever, with no seams needing to line up at all. I made the "zipper" parts entirely from scraps because I had a lot of juvenile fabric scraps and love to make I spy quilts for little ones. The baby has a four-yr-old brother who likes dinosaurs. So for the back I picked a fleece that had dinosaurs. I had a little trouble keeping my edges flat because the fleece was stretchy and I was rushed, but I got it done, and I know they were genuinely happy with their tummy time quilt because they used the one I made for the big brother when he was new.

I forgot to say that I accidentally cut one more row of the i-spy pieces, so my quilt is a couple of inches longer than the one in the MSQC video. The pattern is very forgiving. I had a couple of yards of the forest green Kona on hand, but if I'd been short, making the quilt a little smaller would have easily been just as doable. Everything was from my stash except the back, and you can use a jelly roll or leftover from several jelly rolls for the "zipper" parts. I cut the green fabric, but you could also use a jelly roll for the background, speeding it up even more. Another thing you could do is run the "zippers" across rather than up and down, and if you want a very quick, modern look, make only one "zipper" and run it diagonally across your background and maybe skip the outer border. You will have long bias edges in that case, which might be hard to handle. Prevention would be to run stay stitches on either side of where you are going to slash the background fabric beforehand. The quilting on this quilt was done on my embroidery machine and is an edge-to-edge dinosaur design from Etsy seller, MadebyYustin.

This is a fantastic quilt, Rose! I think it sounds like a great way to not only create a one-of-a-kind quilt, but a super way to use up scraps. Thanks for the idea.

Leslie

I have bookmarked both of those, Copycat - Thanks! I never know when I'm going to need a quilt in a hurry these days, with the next generation of my extended family starting to have babies, and the old folks getting sick and needing some comfort.

Thanks for liking it, Leslie! I thoroughly enjoyed making that pattern.

I made a disappearing nine patch using a couple of charm packs with Disney characters on them for my niece's new baby. She's nuts about Disney and didn't want to know the sex of the baby until it was born.

I like the circle of nine pattern — you can put anything you want in those nine blocks.

thank for the all the ideas

I made this baby girls quilt a while back.
I googled ‘how to make heart quilt blocks’ or some such, and improvised the rest. I used mostly stash fabric.

In the "gallery" section of the Quilting Board there are 5 entries for baby quilts, each with several pages. Lots of cuteness and ideas to be found there!
Baby quilts (1)
Baby Quilts (2)
Baby Quilts (3)
Baby Quilts (4)
Baby Quilts (5)

LI Diva, That heart quilt is adorable. I love the colors you chose.

Thanks for these links, Sewbizgirl!

I have made a small trip around the world with very bright colors. The baby was already born when I made it so I was able to put his name in the middle of the quilt. Another one was an I Spy quilt with all different animals using 5 inch squares so it went really fast. My grandson I made a chevron quilt with a large red heart in the lower right quadrant. I have an Accuquilt cutter so cutting HST goes really fast. For a while I was on an I Spy kick using hexagons and triangles. It ws fun because I liked doing the fussy cutting with a template. Figured out how many hexies I needed then, decided if I wanted 2 or 3 of each print. Using the triangles there are no "Y" seams. But I did have a dickens of a time keeping the points to match up.

I've made baby quilts from Fabric Cafe patterns. They take 3 yards of fabric and they have tons of patterns.

Thank you, Rose!

It always depends on how much work you want to put in!

For some inspiration you can't beat Pinterest, and here is a board I put together:
https://www.pinterest.ca/westernwils...t-awesomeness/

Diamond Trip Quilt
This is a link to YT video. I love this quilt, and it went together quickly.
Here's mine.

I have the baby quilt done
 

I used the idea disappearing nine patch pattern with flannel fat quarters . My sister put the colors and the design for it so it was a team effort. It will be delivered today.
thanks for the ideas it is appreciated!!!!

My daughter was picky about the first baby's colors and theme. The second baby not so much. LOL. One thing I learned about baby quilts, if not for daughters: If the mother doesn't like the colors or theme it will never be used.
I like to donate baby quilts. They are always appreciated. I use the 3 yard quilt pattern. Perfect size for baby and older kids too.

I've made several baby quilts and afghans. Sometimes I wonder how much they're used or appreciated. I guess I just have to focus on my own satisfaction of making them, rather than the appreciation of my work.