For Baby A

Our new granddaughter was born last Friday and we are all thoroughly smitten. And it's the honest truth that I took the last stitch in her baby quilt on Wednesday, threw it in the wash and then pinned it to my design wall on Thursday to dry. What timing.



Baby's mama, my daughter Rachel/@snippetsofsweetness, had shown me an inspiration photo, a darling patchwork quilt by @tincatsew, along with colors she'd chosen for some of baby's nursery linens: Kona Petal, Creamsicle, Pond, Cornflower, Thistle, and White.

I started by making the focal points - the flying geese, half-square triangles, and stripes, and arranged them on the design wall as I went. Then I filled in with blocks of color. There were two prints I included with all the solids, Wink in Pond and Sprinkle in Anna Blue.

I kept building until it was a nice baby-size, 35 1/2" x 39", and started in on the quilting, which all along I planned to be an uneven grid. I realize now that the matched binding details aren't obvious in my photos, but everywhere blue reached the edge of the quilt, the binding is the blue Sprinkle print; everywhere else it's solid blue... a simple little accent, but just an added touch. 

So this timely finish got delivered straightaway, and is home with baby as she settles in with her family.