Do you have any ideas for making a baby quilt that is not difficult? Please advise.

Thank you so much.

You can get a themed fabric (farm, trucks, baby animals etc.) and put it in the middle then borders around the outside.

im doing a quick one for my cousins little boy...
i just got a bunch of fat quarters and will cut out 6" squares and sew together with a border and bind...
kinda a mini scrappy lol

Stripes are fast. Find a theme fabric, make 6 inch stripes. Pick 2 more colors, and make 4 inch stripes for each side. If there is a 3rd color, make the outside border with it.

QAYG... big colorful strips as wide as your backing then bind.

jelly roll your favorite juvinile prints

or use the tube pinwheel method on Missouri Star Quilt Company - I've made several baby quilts doing this and it takes no time at all!

I just finished a "fast" one last night. I brought a panel of a nursery theme, quilted it and added binding. Looks great. Got the panel at Joanne's.
Good luck!

Check out "Super-Sized Nine Patch" by Anita Grossman Solomon. I got it from Quiltmaker mag. May/June 2006. You may be able to get it on their website. But I think I saw it in either last month or the month before reprinted.

check out Kay Wood's 6 hour quilt. Her web site can be found at kaywood.com. This quilt is the top, batting & backing all put together at the same time.

You can always buy the pre-quilted panels too - Just add binding!!

Sandilee-What a great picture of the Arch!!! - I was born and raised in St. Louis and I miss it some but not the traffic lol
cheryl :D

I am making a pp sailboat baby quilt for my dd step mother in law. I sent her a picture....pp sailboats..stripe sales..green boats..blue background with stars.. pale yellow shashing...green dot inner border.. stripe outer border.
She thinks the stripe outer border makes the quilt to busy! She wants a solid blue border.. No light blue fabric that matches. I got royal blue like one of the stripes in the sails. I think it is to dark. She lives out of state. I am going to send her a piece of all the fabrics so she can see what they look like in person.
My daughter said she was high strung and out there! If I ever learn how to post pics I will post it. This is my first try at pp.
Linda

I made this one in 2 days. done in flannels

alternating 4 patch and squares.

cut 6.5 inch squares for the 4 patch
6.5 squares for the other.

measures 30 x 30 without borders



cut 2 inch for the first border
cut 4 inch for the last border

The last post (tutroial) for "Slanted Stars" looks as easy as it gets. Instead of white you could use color. Would be a cute baby quilt, I think.

This is one I just finished. Can't get much easier then this.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-109279-1.htm

Here is the video of the Super sized 9-patch quilt

http://www.hgtv.com/video/super-size...deo/index.html

Here's a link to one I made. It took about 2 hours.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-101644-1.htm

Check out Steak of Sunshine at quiltville.com. Very quick and easy!

Love this quilt! You said that for the 4 patch you cut 6.5 inch squares and the same size for the squares. Do you then quarter the squares for the 4 patch?

Try a tube quilt. Search here for the instructions. Really easy and looks great.

i am bad..not the right measurements for the 4-patch
if finishes at 6.5 to match the squares.

the 4 patch squares or strips were cut t are 3.5

make strips, that is the easy way..

here is a pattern to follow


http://www.quiltville.com/ispya4patch2.shtml

it is the sme as mine..only thiers is an I-Spy 4 ptch.

I love the Quilt as you Sew baby blanket. When you get done sewing the strips to the batting and backing the quilt is done. All you need to do is bind it.

Thanks a bunch!!! Can't wait to make it!

here is a better one..from "quilts for kids"
this is the pattern i used..i just found it!

http://www.quiltsforkids.org/pattern...cuarto-parche/

NO I didn't do it in spanish! ROFL! http://www.quiltsforkids.org/pattern...quilt-pattern/

Check your PM's

[quote=watterstide]
So glad we got those measurements. I was wondering about that when I saw your quilt earlier this week. Love that little quilt.

Pattern in English:

http://www.quiltsforkids.org/pattern...quilt-pattern/

this is the one i made for a boy..

I can't wait to start on a 4 patch this weekend, thank you all for the wonderful information!!!

How big a quilt do you end up with using a jelly roll and the missouri star quilt tutorial?

Congratulations on your weight loss. I always said all my problem weight is between my neck and my knees. lol

Actually I bought a couple of flannel receiving blankets that coordinated, cut them into 5" sq. and make a disappearing
nine patch, it turned out so cut. Very soft, used pearl cotton
and did a large quilt stitch about 1/4" in a grid format. It is
adorable.

The 10 minute block, you can see it on youtube. It literally only take 10 minutes or less. If you have a layer cake quilt fabric (40 10 inch sqaures) It's even faster. It takes only 5 10 inch squares to make one. If you made 4 10 minute blocks it would give you a 40 x 40 baby quilt and you can complete the top in under an hour. Amazing.
Robert

these are a couple i made in the past..it has tken me some time to locate them in the albums! i have got to get more organized with my pictures!

I t may have been fast, but it sure is cute. What Mother or baby wouldn't enjoy that quilt.

where on u tube did you find the 10 minute quilt block? I'd enjoy wataching it........

if you have an embroidery machine, here's one I made in about 6 hours

Moda fabric's website, www.unitednotions.com also has free charm pack patterns. They are very easy and go together quickly. I use them a lot. You can also use squares if you don't have a charm pack.

Hi Watterside, I sent you a PM before I read all of the instructions you put on here. Thanks so much. Hope you have a great day. Beautiful quilts.

Check Connectingthreads.com under Free Patterns. There is one called Quilt as You Patch Coins Quilt. I think that it could be done in simple peicing. Looks like it would go fast. Good Luck

This is my go to quilt pattern for a baby quilt.

http://www.quiltville.com/streakofsunshine.shtml

Also, the Disappearing Nine Patch is another favorite.

I have a favorite pattern for a quick quilt. Buy 1 3/4 yard of a print pick 2 complimentry fabric [ 1 yard each ] and 5/8 fabric for binding. This quilt turns out to be 50x65, so you can make it smaller. Cut the print fabric 8.5 in and the other 2 colors 4.5 in sew these 2 fabrics in strips and make 4 patches with them. then alternate the blocks with 8.5 and the four patches [5 across and 7 down] with no borders. I quilt and X throught the four patches bind and you are done. I hops you can understand my directions other wise email me at [email protected]