I have a friend that needed a baby quilt for a new grandson in Ohio. The room theme was "Under the Sea" with pastel blues and greens and a bit of dark blue. Try as I may from my stash, the only thing that struck me was these deeper tones. And as luck would have it, she loved it too. This is the same pattern I've used before in another quilt for her, which she was very happy with, and wanted to have again for this quilt. It finished out at 33"x45", warm and natural cotton batting, hand sewn binding, and free motion quilting around the fishies and on some of the background in the main blocks as well as stitch-in-the-ditch elsewhere.

Love the quilt and bag! Gorgeous!

So bright and cheery. Sure to be baby's favorite. The new mom is going to love that matching bag!

Beautiful

very bright & colorful - baby will 'drool' over it! Like the tote bag too - handy for mommy for all the things she'll be carting around.

Love the design and the colors. Great job :thumbup:

Beautiful. Is that your quilting following the design? Really helps to bring out the fish motif!

Yeah for bright colors! Baby will love them!

Yes, I did free motion around all the fish and sea creatures in the blocks in the center and in the outside border. I also did some stitching on the background drawing of coral and things in the center blocks to make it "pop". My free motion gets a little out of control sometimes, but not too bad, and I'm learning to stay closer to what I'm trying to outline.

(Still learning on here, too lol) This was in response to the comment from fleurdelisquilts.com

Really cute and colorful, great job!

That is gorgeous and a matching bag to go with it!!! Lucky mom and baby.

very nice.. love the bag

great quilt and bag.

love that fabric,great job

That is so cute :)

Great job! Love the idea of a matching bag. Keep it up.

Wow!! I absolutely love that!!!

Darling.

Darling quilt and bag! It fits the theme perfectly.

Too CUTE!! Love it!!

adorable! Love that you made a matching bag, too ~ my DIL didn't think about that with her first, but now she gets matching bags with the quilts for my DGDs! :)

Love it...beautiful colors!!

My DH is a scuba diver, he'd love that!

That is Adorable!!! Great Job! :)

Very, very nicely done. I'm lovin' it.

I love it too.

What a beautiful and fun quilt!

Wow, nice work!

That is such a cheery looking quilt & bag must have been a fun one to work on! Thanks for sharing it!

Your fabric colors are right on genius. I have these very same fabrics and I wouldn't think of putting them together, good eye. Fish are one of my favorites to make,too.

You did a fantastic job and i am very glad she loved it. If not i would have taken it. The bag as well is a wonderful touch. Well done and thanks for sharing ;-)

Super job. Love the bright colors. :thumbup:

Oh how sweet. I love the brighter colors.

So dear for the baby. Bright colors and the bag, too. You are an accomplished quilter!

Just way too cute - great job!

Very appropriate and pretty!

The fish seem to be gliding past the coral and come alive. Beautiful choice of the deeper blue for the blue lines. Thanks for sharing!

that is so cute

I love the bright colors and the baby will too. Color is a great teaching tool. Her grandson is very lucky.

I used the fish fabric and made fishbowls for out daughter. She is off to college and has wanted a fish tank. So I figured as long as life is a roller coaster I would give her a fishbowl quilt. She loves it. I just applicade the bowls on white back ground with dark blue sashing all around.

Yours is lovely. Wish I would have taken the time to do some free motions around hers.

K