2 Baby Quilts
05-26-2010, 06:57 AM
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Thanks to all of you who had such nice things to say about my recently posted baby quilts. I am humbled. Let me say first that I did the piecing but, as the young folks say, my BFF did the quilting. And we all know the quilting makes the quilt.
Gabriel is almost 3 now and I started his alphabet quilt pretty much right after he was born (I made him a turtle quilt before he arrived 'cause that was the nursery theme). The fun part was gathering the fabrics and yes, I do have a stash from that process! E-bay was my best friend! I tried to select fabrics that had a connection to the family (I am a nurse, crabs are a Maryland thing as are the Baltimore Orioles, he loved to suck on dill pickles way before he actually ate any real table food...you get the point). The upper and lower case letters were a popular fabric line at the time...AmericanJane...maybe. Of course, I >> to get a panel of each color for variety. The ASL panel I found on e-bay quite by accident. Had never seen it before and have never seen it since. The tiny cornerstones and the big blocks at the four corners are an alphabet fabric. The sashing strips were black and white because I put a little black and white in a lot of my busier quilts. The pattern itself was my own doing. I gave it to him on his second birthday when he graduated to his "big boy bed".
Elliott's quilt was a combination of two older published patterns
(one was called V-Dubs and I can't for the life of me rember the second one) and Sharon Squier Craig's Twist and Turn setting method. I wanted to include a VW bus (also an older published pattern) but it just seemed too busy...hard to imagine, huh?!
And I love piano key borders, they are so easy and always turn out practically perfect. My sister is the grandmother and takes care of Gabriel and (soon) Elliott and her license plate is "DOGGON" and there were two big black labs in the family so hence the dogs in the window...Montgomery and Sadie.
Now you know the rest of the story!
Gabriel is almost 3 now and I started his alphabet quilt pretty much right after he was born (I made him a turtle quilt before he arrived 'cause that was the nursery theme). The fun part was gathering the fabrics and yes, I do have a stash from that process! E-bay was my best friend! I tried to select fabrics that had a connection to the family (I am a nurse, crabs are a Maryland thing as are the Baltimore Orioles, he loved to suck on dill pickles way before he actually ate any real table food...you get the point). The upper and lower case letters were a popular fabric line at the time...AmericanJane...maybe. Of course, I >> to get a panel of each color for variety. The ASL panel I found on e-bay quite by accident. Had never seen it before and have never seen it since. The tiny cornerstones and the big blocks at the four corners are an alphabet fabric. The sashing strips were black and white because I put a little black and white in a lot of my busier quilts. The pattern itself was my own doing. I gave it to him on his second birthday when he graduated to his "big boy bed".
Elliott's quilt was a combination of two older published patterns
(one was called V-Dubs and I can't for the life of me rember the second one) and Sharon Squier Craig's Twist and Turn setting method. I wanted to include a VW bus (also an older published pattern) but it just seemed too busy...hard to imagine, huh?!
And I love piano key borders, they are so easy and always turn out practically perfect. My sister is the grandmother and takes care of Gabriel and (soon) Elliott and her license plate is "DOGGON" and there were two big black labs in the family so hence the dogs in the window...Montgomery and Sadie.
Now you know the rest of the story!
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