Bubble Quilt for Baby A

A few months ago, our very good friends had their second daughter. Meet Baby A.

This "bubble quilt" for A is made with a variety of fabrics, including this cute bird fabric I had used on her big sister's quilt a few years ago.

The back is a very soft flannel with a sweet bunny print. Love!

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Baby Quilt

Another baby quilt! This is a quilt for another of my husband's cousins - the younger sister of the cousin mentioned in this post. Two babies due within just a few weeks of each other. Since this baby's gender is a surprise, I decided to use the same gender-neutral fabrics, but with a different design. I love these colors!


The circles are attached with a small zigzag stitch and then the entire quilt is stippled.

The backing is a orange, peach, and pink gingham and the binding is a soft blue (the same binding as the first quilt, too).

I loved this one with the sun coming from behind - my "assistant's" silhouette is adorable, don't you think?

Blue & Green Circles

The blue and green circle quilt, inspired by the tutorial at Make it... a Wonderful Life, is finally done!

Detail of some of the circles - all raw edges sewn down with a zig-zag stitch.

My favorite is this fabric with the little houses and trees - I bought this on Etsy and it actually came from Hong-Kong. My first international purchase! (And maybe my last... it took forever to arrive!)

The border is pieced from the remaining fabrics - love how this turned out and it wasn't as much trouble as I thought it would be.

The inside is stipple quilted, the borders are not. I like the way it makes the quilt "pop" and I love the crinkly goodness.


The binding and backing is the same fabric from the carseat quilt. And I still have A BUNCH left, so I imagine you'll be seeing more of it in future projects.


This is my first pieced back - using some of the leftovers from the borders. It's not very dramatic, but it works. Although... I do have to admit it's a little crooked. How do you get them to line up straight?

Detail...

I love this one and can't wait to snuggle up in it this evening.

And you know what? I have a clean slate right now, no unfinished projects (at the moment... give me an hour or two!).

Pink & Orange Bubbles

This quilt ended up being NOTHING like I planned. It had a mind of it's own and I'm so glad I gave in and went with it... I love where we ended up!

This is a quilt for my dear friend Kelly who has blessed me with her design talents on this blog, my photography website and photography blog, and numerous family projects as well. She is now expecting her second child and I am absolutely thrilled for her. This sweet "bubble" quilt combines some modern designer fabrics with some beautiful vintage florals, too.

This quilt uses raw-edge circles, sewn in place with a zigzag stitch. After a few washings, the edges of the circles fray just a bit, giving a soft, well-loved look to the quilt.

I quilted this one with a series of horizontal lines. Again, this wasn't what I originally planned for this quilt, but something pulled me in this direction. The lines at the top of the quilt start about 1" apart, then grow to 2" and finally 3" apart. It looks and feels great and I'm adding this to my favorites, for sure!


This is a picture before washing - with the blue fabric ink in the lines, I thought it'd be a little easier to see the stitches. Again, these are 1", 2", and 3" apart.

Kelly loves Strawberry Shortcake and has shared with me plans to use some vintage SS to decorate the baby's room. So when I saw this vintage fabric online, I knew it would be the perfect backing for this quilt.


The fabric was actually a very bright white, so my darling husband dyed it for me in the kitchen sink. Looked scary, but it actually came out just the perfect shade of off-white.


The binding is a pink/yellow/orange dot that gives it just a little bit of "oomph" around the edges.

I hope mom and baby will love the quilt as much as I do.

Those who sleep under a quilt sleep under a blanket of love.

Progress...

The blue and green circle quilt top is done, waiting to be quilted!

Blue & Green Circles

Next up? A blue and green circle quilt, inspired by the tutorial at Make it... a Wonderful Life.

Instead of using a CD as a template, I invested in a Circle Rotary Cutter. It's sooooo wonderful. And since I was able to buy it using a 50% off coupon at Joann's, I am extra delighted.

Here's part of the stack of fabrics. They'll all be sewn on 6" white squares.

This one is going to be a throw blanket for our home.

Squares and Circles!

This is a pretty simple patchwork quilt, using fabrics from here and there, all jumbled together (my favorite). The fun on this one came in the quilting. This is only the second quilt that I have machine quilted and I really went for it. Each of the 42 squares has a circle quilted into it. It took me a long time because I'm still learning, but I am so glad I took the chance because I love how it turned out.

Details...


The backing matches the green polka-dot border and I LOVE the binding.


Even the back of the quilt is fun to look at!

It's in the mail and off to a sweet baby boy - I hope he likes it!