Quilter 65

I see you have decided on pinwheels. If you can find or have a center that would work, surround with pinwheels, border and you are good to go. Using pastels would make it more babyish. Good luck. Sounds like you are one busy woman with lots and lots on her plate. Congrats on finishing school. Not easy with full-time job, kids, and the other things of life.

quiltsRfun

Disappearing nine-patch

ube quilting

Snow ball quilts are great for quick baby quilts. Here is a sample of one I made in a weekend. Just choose a fun focus fabric and a neutral filler. This is all snow ball blocks and I put them on point. On point makes a bigger quilt faster and looks cool.
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illinois

If you want super-quick, choose a cute fabric (perhaps a remnant in your stash), border it multiple times with coordinating fabric. Can stitch in the ditch quilt it or simply machine stitch either cross-hatch or make squares. Unless the recipient is a quilter, the "cuteness" of the quilt makes the big impression and the quality or extent of work is not appreciated.

btiny36

Here is a site for the free bullseye block http://heartstringquilts.blogspot.ca...-tutorial.html

mom-6

Your idea of doing pinwheels in bright colors sounds adorable!

profannie

For a busy woman like you, an improv quilt would be fun, relaxing and quick. Just start with a cute fussy cut piece of fabric and add coordinating strips, like illinois said.
If you do pinwheel, use the Jenny Doan trick (sewing the four side of two square put right side facing and cut it diagonally). It speed up the process.

Momala24

The cheese and crackers pattern by Atkinson designs is very nice. It works up quickly and looks very good when done!

Michellesews

I see you are in New York. Another reader suggested polar fleece backing and I would like to add to that.

If you use polar fleece you will not only save time and money but the quilt will be so cozy!

Using fleece for backing, without batting, enables you to quilt with minimal stitching, in fact it is recommended for a cozier feel, as in 8-10 inches apart! Stitch in the ditch is perfect and you only need to stitch it in one direction, just be sure that direction is PARALLEL TO THE SELVEDGE OF THE FLEECE. This is due to the stretchiness of the fleece. The other way it saves a lot of time is that all you have to do to bind it is cut the fleece 1" away from the edges of the quilt, fold over twice and zig zag down and you're done! You could easily make three quilts in a week this way. Best of luck to you!

cwcquilters

http://www.favequilts.com/

I like this site and today there are baby quilt patterns.