[A smattering of finished quilt blocks.]
When I was pregnant last year, I publicly expressed my intentions of making a baby quilt on this very blog. Fast forward a year (or more) and the quilt is not done, but I have an excuse! The fact is Edmund received a lot of baby blankets as gifts, all of them very beautiful and useful, but I figured I really don't need to go to all that work when he's got plenty of blankets already. So, I decided to turn my blanket into a toddler-sized quilt instead. I recently pulled out the fabrics again and starting piecing some more blocks. I need to do the math to figure out how many I will need for the larger quilt, but so far I have twenty done. Things are chugging along!
I'm a 31-year-old Christian. My hope is to live a quiet life filled with home and hearth, family and friends, loveliness and simplicity. I'm wife to Douglas (married October 2008) and mother to Edmund (born November 2009), Lavinia (born May 2012), and Rosamund (born February 2014).
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What happy colors! Are you putting the colors together randomly, or is it a specific pattern? I've always wished to know how to do quilting. I'll look forward to seeing this when it gets finished. =)
ReplyDeleteCheri, I don't really know what I'm doing either. :-P The colors are pretty random, I guess -- some of the fabrics come from matching quilting cottons and others are scraps from a friend and others are random 1930s repros. Hopefully it will somehow all pull together when it's finished.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love all of the colors and prints (and your piecing looks so lovely and precise).
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to make a useful toddler quilt, rather than an unneeded extra baby blanket! Which makes me wonder, how many baby blankets are there per infant in America -- every mother I've heard of seems to have dozens! :-)
Blessings,
Shannon
How lovely! I love the assortment of colors and vintage-looking fabrics.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to pulling out my quilting project now that it's autumn. There's just something about cool weather that puts me in a quilting mood.
Beautiful! I love the churn dash pattern.
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