Animal Baby Quilt

 I recently completed a quilt I’d started designing back in 2018. 

I have now u now finished it. Whew. 

Finished Product

Original Design

Computer Design Re-worked

Using CAD to design patterns

Adding seam allowance

Beginning the cutting process

Pattern look, Pattern pieces, and beginning sewing

Right at this point I got Covid and had to stop for about 3 weeks

I finally figured out how I wanted to do the heart.

Embroidered the name.

Adding tiny pieced sashing for around blocks

Always fun to do a little improv piecing for the back

(especially since I ran out of the backing fabric.)

Our newly adopted Dusty is helping

Quilting the sandwich

Printed out some tags!!

And Voila.

The ears and tail on some of the animals 

are free to flop around, play with,

chew on or whatever. (here they have been pinned up)

A little wash and dry and it's puckered up nicely

and washed away any extra sizing or starch.

Perfect for babies skin. 

I hope to upload the pattern to my Etsy account. But first I should probably give it to the intended recipient first.

Thanks, Ruth

Rainbows and Hearts

A friend recently asked me to make a baby quilt for a friend of hers.
The theme was rainbows. Well, I have experience making rainbow quilts. That's about all I've done the past few years.

For Example:

Rainbow Quilt for Goose 2011

Rainbow Quilt 2011

The Rainbow Quilt for Goose in 2011 was the pattern I used for Rainbow 2017.

Quilt for E, 2012

Quilt for Big Girl Goose 2014

Big Brother Quilt 2011

Final Quilt. I revised the pattern, turning it into a perfect square, rather than the original rectangle. I also removed the sashes and changed the color pattern.

Pieced backing, I like pieced backings. They feel like two quilts in one. Plus, for a baby quilt,
well, they WILL get puked on. So more pattern to hide stains is a must.

Brain storming in my sketch book.

Final Colors

Final colors and pattern. Note, it changed from here to square.

Cutting and piecing

Four blocks pieced. There was so much bias edging
that I used knit stay tape. That way much less stretching
during sewing.

Fun stuff you guys. Wish I had this in
college. 

I thought a pieced heart would be cute.
But I'm glad I didn't do it. 

Better

Best

So close you guys

Just a little appliqué

Piecing the back. I didn't have enough fabric in a pattern
for the backing, so a pieced backing was the way to go.
Plus, this is a baby quilt, and babies puke.  Several patterns
can disguise stains.

Stretching the quilt before safety-pin basting

One thing I forgot, this quilt was mostly sewn
on bias. So it stretched a lot. 

When started to quilt, well, it would pucker a lot.

I re-sewed my appliqué about four times.

Because of the puckering that happened with my
sewing, (I used a high loft batting to make it super squishy)
I had to do some re-sewing to remove a lot of loft
from the heart circle. Which led to some weird stretching.

The backing. 

This was a fun project. I'm thinking I might make a PDF pattern available on my Etsy. So if someone wanted to make a rainbow quilt, they could.

Till next project.

,Ruth