Personalized Child's Quilt Pattern
 

Does anyone have a pattern for a child's quilt with the name on it? Preferably machine embroidered name. But applique letters would be ok too. I was hoping for the letters to be 5"? And then surround the letters with blocks.
I'm not so good with designing things, but can follow a pattern with great success. Or just instructions. I hate to buy all the fabric and just go at it not knowing if it will work out right.

Thanks in advance.

SVAL

I'm planning to do the same thing... I was just going to look for fonts online and print them to use as a template. I think you can search Google for "applique letters" and find some that are free.

I've never purchased a pattern with letters. If I see a pattern I like, I just make a few adjustments to it, and put squares where I want the lettering to be. I also either go online , or I use Microsoft Office to make my own templet's. It's very easy. One day when my printer was out of ink. I just put a sheet of paper on screen and traced. Didn't have to waste ink, Google girls/boy/baby quilt and look how and where they put the names.

I am just finishing a quilt like this. I found some font letters on the web - closer to 4 inches I think. I machine appliqued those on to a square, then made a square in square block with different colors, then lined them up, sewed them together and created a band going through the middle of the quilt. In this case, did it for the back. It looks really nice - will post a photo when I'm back home.

I sometimes applique the child's name on the border, or if I make a quilt with some embroidered blocks I put the name as the center block.

If I want to add a name, I make a quilt, then embroider the name onto the quilt. I just put the name wherever it would most suit the quilt. The other thing I do is follow a pattern and either add a border, or make the border larger so the same can be added to the border.

Here is a pattern I have used before and embroidered messages of different sizes on the different size blocks...
Leesa Chandler Southern Jewels

http://www.patchworkangel.com.au/osc...oducts_id=1521

I bought some block letters when the local grocery store was closing and everything was half off. You could get the same things I am sure at Walmart. There was an episode of F&P that had one of their guest use lettering on a quilt.

I have just used word software, pick out a nice fat font and print them on paper the size I want, trace on fusible, rough cut and then iron on the back of fabric. Next I applique them with a machine blanket stitch!

Here is an example of a simple child's quilt with an embroidered name on it. You could enlarge the letters as much as you want. I made this quilt but don't have an embroidery machine so I appliqued larger letters where she has appliqued hers. You could use any pattern you want and just add a strip for the name like was done here.

http://www.favequilts.com/Quilts-For...ley-Baby-Quilt

This is the back of a baby quilt I made not that long ago. I cut the letters with my Go cutter and used a blanket stitch. But you can cut out any font and make the same.
http://www.wowilikethat.com/wp-conte...9-1024x768.jpg

I found a quilt pattern that I love and made it for a great-niece. It has an embroidered strip for the name (I don't have an embroidery machine so I used templates, as suggested, and appliqued the letter onto the quilt strip). It uses a charm pack sashed with white and bound with a colorful patterned fabric. You can find it at:
http://ocd-obsessivecraftingdisorder...t-pattern.html

I have a pattern for a child's quilt that is striped with a choice of flamingo, monkey or giraffe appliqued on one "corner" (fairly large, but not a quarter of the top) and the child's name appliqued on. Letters are included, but do need to be copied to size desired - so not really a lot different than printing off a font in a word processing program or from internet. Sorry,, don't remember the name of it, and won't be home for a few days.

Thank you to all of you for your suggestions. They are great.
Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to make the quilt after all. We were at my daughter's and grandson's last night. It seems his other grandmother just bought him a new comforter for his bed. So it's highly unlikely they'd take it off to put a quilt on, especially for winter.
Plus I was considering using spiderman fabric for the majority of it. And am having second thoughts as to whether that would just be too much superheros and how long would he like it.
This keeps happening. I was all but on my way to the store to get the supplies for his Halloween Costume when I found out the other grandma had bought him one from the Disney Store. How can you compete with that?

I think you should make it anyway! While he has a comforter for his bed, he would probably love a "blankie" to carry around with him...especially one that has his name on it.

I thought of making a more crib/lap quilt instead. But he's not a "blankie" kind of boy. At 3 he's totally on the go. Never sits still for anything.
I suppose next year when the weather is warmer it might be of use then.

One thing I have learned recently it little ones LOVE things with their names of it. My great niece and nephew are 5 (twins) and I made them pillow cases with little sayings on them that included their name and they were so excited. They share a bathroom and so I embroidered Christmas towels with their names on them - they refused to put them away after the season ended. A friend of mine had 2 foster children (3 & 5), I did towels for them with their names on them and the 3 year old little girl claimed it as her "Blankie". It goes with her everywhere. She was so excited that it was hers, because it had her name on it. I was so surprised, she was showing it to everyone that would look at it.

So make him a TV watching blanket, it will be his, and his alone, because it has his name on it.