Square Baby Quilt Complete

I finished the square quilt I have been working on recently! I love the way it turned out. I hope my sweet friend does too. I hope she wraps her little baby boy up it in when he gets here! As I mentioned before, this quilt is based on "Modern Meadow" by Lee of Freshly Pieced. She said hers is based on "Chain Linked" by Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter. 

Edit: You can find my tutorial of this quilt here.

Washing and drying quilts always make them so crinkly. So fun!

The light was really harsh when I was snapping these pictures, but I had about 20 minutes to take them and wrap it up before we went to the shower.

For the backing I used a gray and white striped fabric called Stripe Gray from the Lost and Found 2 collection by Mind's Eye for Riley Blake. I've found that I love neutrals for the back of my quilts lately. It makes the piecing on the front stand out so much more. 

I picked up this t-shirt box at Michael's. There is one about 2 minutes from our apartment. Dangerously close. I just used some black paint I had on hand to write little Lukes name on top. I've found that using apparel puff paint makes it so easy to write text when you're in a time crunch. All in all this was such a fun quilt to work on.

I also featured this packaging on my Calligraphy blog if you wanted to check it out!

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I finished piecing the top together for this quilt! I need to quilt and bind it to take to the baby shower this coming Sunday afternoon. I'm also making a cake for the shower. So much to do! All fun though.

I just got the backing fabric in the mail! I ordered just enough. I think its only about 1" bigger all the way around than top piece. Way too tight for me. I'm going to have to pin like crazy.

I have some blue striped fabric left over from the backing of this quilt that I think I'm going to use for the binding. Either that or gray. I haven't quite decided yet.

I also included the little sketch I did to figure out the color and layout of this quilt. I basically used 1 grid square as a 2"x2" piece of fabric. It's been pretty helpful having it available to look at. 

Now onto quilting and binding!

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I finished piecing together the strips for the square baby quilt I'm working on. 

Above are the white blocks sashed with gray fabric and below are the gray blocks sashed with the white fabric.

It won't be long now before this quilt top is pieced! 

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New Fabric!

Over Christmas my sweet family gave me a lot of great new fabric! 

This layer cake is Serenade by Kate Spain for Moda. Don't you just love those colors? I feel like they have a vintage feel while still having clean lines. I do have to admit, there is a butterfly print in there that I don't care for. It may be because I had a ton of those butterfly clips when I was younger which makes the fabric seem 90s-ish. I don't know. That's me being super picky. I love it though!

I also like that on the back of the layer cake there is a little sheet showing the different ways you can cut them up. So helpful!

Ok, how cute is this little mini charm pack. They are only 2.5 inches! Ah! So cute. This is PB&J by Basic Grey for Moda. Such a cute line. I can't wait to figure out what to do with these little squares!

Something I mentioned wanting for Christmas was neutral and white precuts. I am always in need but those aren't as fun to buy when there are so many bright and colorful fabrics out there! I was so thankful to receive this Bella Solids Natural (Wheat Flour) Jelly Roll by Moda and a few charm packs; Bella Solids Natural Charm Pack by Moda and a couple Cotton Supreme Optical White Charm Packs by RJR Fabrics. These will definitely be used quickly. 

Square Baby Quilt Blocks

I've started working on a new baby boy quilt for a sweet friend of mine. I'm usually finished with quilts weeks before baby showers so I have time to focus on food and decorations but I am so behind on this one! Her shower is in 2 weeks! I am going to have to speed through the process. I'm kind of at a stand still because I ran out of white fabric. I have other white fabric but it doesn't exactly match. I need to just buy one kind of white fabric so I don't run into this problem in the future. I might go ahead and cut the binding and batting as I'm waiting for it to come in. 

This quilt is based on "Modern Meadow" by Lee of Freshly Pieced. She said hers is based on "Chain Linked" by Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter. 

So far I've been able to use my scraps from my recent Pinwheel Quilt which has been nice. I'm reeeallly trying to not let my fabric stash get out of control. It's always fun buying new fabric for a new project but it's also a great feeling being able to complete a project using what you already have!

The fabrics used in these blocks are Kona Cotton Mint, Bella Solids Stone, Bella Solids Aqua, Bella Solids White Bleached, and another gray that I can't remember the name of! I bought it at City Craft when they were having a moving location sale. 60% off everything in the store! Can't beat that!

For these blocks I used 4 inch square blocks with 2 inch strip sashing. Once the blocks were completed I squared them up to 6.5 inches. This is when my little 6.5 inch acrylic ruler comes in handy. I'm ready to complete this quilt top! Here's hoping my fabric will get here today (fingers crossed)!

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I finished piecing together my Chevron and On quilt top! 

It ended up being a little bigger than most of the baby quilts I've made. I like the size of it. It will be plenty big to bundle up the sweet baby boy it's going to be given to.

Again, I love the fact that I was able to use my scraps for this one. I'm trying really hard to not have a ton of fabric bins everywhere so these kind of projects help!

I think for the backing I want to do some sort of gray pattern. Not for sure yet. 

I'm hoping to quilt this one this Saturday because I have a new baby quilt to start for a friend that wants to gift it at a baby shower on the 22nd of this month. Just waited for the fabric to come in. So excited to get started.

I'm thinking a bright color for the binding on this one. Maybe orange? Something fun at least. I will probably quilt it in a meandering free-motion design. It's just so fast, easy, and cute. Hard to beat it.

Chevron and On Baby Quilt Progress

Daniel and I have sweet friends in our home group that found they are pregnant with a baby boy! We couldn't be happier for them. 

I decided to use up some scraps that were taking up space! Megan of Canoe Ridge Creations blogged about her adorable pattern Chevron and On. I'm not sure her exact measurements but I cut out 20 5" squares and 10 7.5" in squares of paper to use as my backing for my scrap piecing. 

I created my half square triangle blocks out of my 7.5" squares using this method Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Co. explains in this video. Now time to square them up and piece them together!