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Ben Franklins in Helena , MT is going out of business and closing by the end of June, so I bought 2 yards of each of these the other day. I want to make a quilt for the expected first child of my granddaughter and her husband. We do not know the gender yet but my granddaughter loves purple and she loved these fabrics. I would appreciate any suggestions to use all of these fabrics....thank you for your help[ATTACH=CONFIG]547809[/ATTACH]

Thank you Tartan, I just remembered that my granddaughter loves anything with chevrons....I shall now look for somw nice white..

I sent this Chevron baby quilt that I came across in Google Images to my quilting friends a few days ago. I am planning on making one out of flannel:
http://www.brightonsewingcentre.co.u...jellyroll.html
You could either do ever other row with a soft white like Kona Snow or find pastel solids that will coordinate with the prints. Cute fabric. Who makes it??

My friend made a quilt with similar fabrics called Heartstrings by Evelyn Sloppy. There is a free pattern download on Martingale/ThatPatchworkPlace. It is made up of heart shaped log cabin blocks. So cute! She made hers with only the heart blocks. The pattern shows more log cabin designs. One in the center and around the border. It is pretty either way. Hope you take a look. It seems to go with the fabric, IMHO. You do have to sign in to get the free downloads but I think they are a reputable company.

Just looked at the chevron pattern that Maniacquilter2 suggested. That is darling, too. Good luck with your decision, you can't go wrong with that cute fabric.

Fat quarter shop.com has a tutorial on you tube that is called rick rack paddy whack that these would look good in. It is a snowball quilt with some borders around it and then set with large rick rack. REALLY cute. I think they have a link to it on their site.

Thank you so much for the pattern, it is lovely.....the fabric says '' 1930's classics designed for Exclusively Quilters''.
It is so nice to the touch.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/quiltin...ml#post7172653

there's a very cute baby quilt at this qb post that may work great with these fabrics, with the addition of a little white. It's the 4th photo down. I saved it because I plan to make it one day.

I like the chevron idea.........you could use solid colors that go with these fabrics if you need more strips.

I think those pretty fabrics would look good as hexagons. You could add a few plain mauve hex's and some white, and a mauve border. I don't know how big those daisies are, but if large I would fussy cut to mostly use the colour sections.

Thank you so much.....that is really cute....maybe i could get two quilts out of the fabric !!

Cool idea....I shall remember this..actually the daisies are rather small....thanks

Thanks you so much......I shall be printing up another pattern...

Here's one I made of 30s fabrics. It's a pattern I designed that could be bowties for boys or hairbows for girls.

Jan in VA

Thanks you so much......I shall be printing up another pattern...

I was thinking tumblers, pinwheels, Something more on the neutral side. Then a green or yellow border or if enough, piano key border in colors or green or yellow.

That is so adorable Jan Do you have instructions for it ???...I love it but I am not able to do anything with out instructions. I would love to try it......

I have never tried piano key boarders but I think that would be such a good idea.......thank you

how about hearts. for my son, I made him a quilt of hearts and blue bindings. I still have it. 27 yrs later.

Now that is a cool idea......I could look up how to make hearts and go with it....if it would last that long it would outlive me...lol.....thanks you Lynnie

Oh....that pattern suggested by Red Garnet would be super for your fabric!

There is a ribbon quilt that has been posted recently that I really like and think would lend itself to your fabrics. And yesterday there was Bows and Giggles that looks to be an easy one but very cute.

I saw this yesterday, and loved it. However, I wonder how that ric rac will look coming out of the washer and dryer. Has anybody done this?

White would be a good background fabric or, if you can find the match, I think the green would look great. I would look at the 'basic' designs such as the chevron or a french braid or even a split rail. These designs would really let the fabrics shine.

If you look in the advance search under Chevron toddler vintage, I shared a pic of a quilt using repro looking fabrics with white, might give you a sneak peek at something similar.
Probably my favorite quilt to date.
Free pattern at limasews.com
I have found Chevrons are popular with new moms.

I think the cheese and crackers pattern from terry Atkinson designs would be lovely in theses fabrics.

What a shame, so many of the places where we used to shop for fabric have gone out of business. I used to love to shop at a local Ben Franklin's store, where I could find anything from clothes pins to craft items, they usually always had just what I needed, then there was the fabric. I'm afraid I spent a lot of money then, but I was working and had the funds. I'm still using a lot of the fabric I bought, although I've used up a lot of it. The best thing though was the helpful people who worked there. Those fabrics are yummy and I agree would make a great Chevron baby quilt.

A white on white might be nice.

Thanks, love the pattern. Love 30's fabric for baby quilts - usually leave out pink when not sure of gender. Just me - always looks girly with pink to me.

Here's a cute baby chevron pattern that looks quick and easy. http://www.kitchentablequilting.com/...-tutorial.html

You can make a chevron using 1/2 square triangles, too. It is really easy. What I do is cut a strip of the main fabric(s) in whatever size you choose to make the chevrons. Then cut an equally sized strip of the white.

Put the two strips good side to good side, and sew 1/4 inch seams the length of the strip on both sides. You wind up with a tube.

Cut the sdwn together strips at intervals that are equal to the length of the tube. So if your strips are 5" long and forty inches wide (excluding selvage) you will get 8 squares. If your tube is 10 long and 40 inches wide, you will get 4 10" squares out of the tube.

Take each square and sew the open ends together. Now each of your squares is sewn closed on 4 sides.

Take your ruler and put it on the square and very carefully cut it on the diagonals, corner to corner, like you are making an "X".

You have 4 quarter square triangles and did not sew on the bias. Arrange them for the chevron. Here are two that I have done. I only use two fabrics for the chevron, but you could use more than that, if you want. This technique can also be used for hourglass and pinwheel blocks, etc.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...n-t252879.html

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t260723.html