It's been a while since I've made a baby quilt, so when the need for one came up, I didn't really have an idea of what to do. Until I saw
Krista's
"Welcome to Nunaka", which she shared in the recent Blogger's Quilt Festival. Where Krista used pink in her mixed neutral background, I used blue. Actually, light blue and green, along with white, snow, and a pale gray.
The prints were mostly from Lucie Summers' summersville. I used a charm pack, matching up the 5" squares with solid squares, sewing a 1/4" on either side of a diagonal marked with my hera, then cutting and trimming to 4 1/2" blocks. {Random note: did you know they now make a "slim" hera??} I didn't have quite enough summersville, so I added in bits of Half Moon Modern Oval Dots, Metro Living Rings, DS Sugar Creek Infinity, and American Jane Mono Pez, which I thought all played well together.
For backing, I chose the summersville alphabet print in coal, and quilted with a simple double-line grid, just like Krista.
There were two new-to-me products in this project :
- Pellon's Legacy 100% Natural Cotton batting, which I really loved! It has such a nice hand, and the finished quilt is very soft.
- Aurifil's 40 wt thread, which I'd heard rave reviews on for quilting (Ivory #2021). I learned right off that a larger needle than my norm was in order, and a 90/14 quilting needle worked well for me. Cristycreates on Ig tells me that using an embroidery needle would be even better, but I didn't have any on hand and managed fine. But I'll definitely be picking some up to compare.
For binding, I used more of those oval dots, and wouldn't you know I was just a teensy short, so I just filled in with some pez and infinity. Problem solved.
Overall this went together fairly quickly, and it has a soothing quality about it. I'm trusting baby will feel the love.
Linking up with Fabric Tuesday.
