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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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 the pinwheel quilt I was working on for a friend!

I love how it turned out. There's something about having so much white space that makes it so sweet.

The backing fabric works so great with the front. 

I took these pictures last night before I put the binding on. I finished the binding around 10:30 last night so I had to wait and take pictures of the final product this morning. 

The little pinwheels are so cute!

Here it is with the orange binding attached. It adds a little pop of color. This was such a fun quilt to work on. I definitely want to make another one in this pattern sometime in the future.

Pinwheel Quilt Work in Progress

I started working on my pinwheel quilt for my friend. She's taking it to a baby shower this next Thursday so I wanted to get a lot of it done as quickly as I could! 

I started by cutting 8 5" squares of each color and getting my white charm pack out. 

I then sandwiched and sewed them right sides together. After I that I cut them in half diagonally both ways and pressed them open. 

Such cute little half square triangles!

I then started sewing them together to make the pinwheel block. Chain piecing saves so much time and thread!

You can see the little pieces coming together!

Here they are waiting for the final step. I also included a pic of them chain pieced together on strips of sashing. I'm getting close to the top being pieced!

New Fabric!

My new fabric came in for the quilt I am making! My friend asked me to make it for her friend that his having a baby boy. I included this picture of so you could see how well the Fat Quarter Shop packages up their fabric. It was perfectly layered revealing a little peak of each color. So great!

The fabric I ordered, from left to right, is Kona Cotton Mint, Bella Solids Stone, Bella Solids Aqua, Bella Solids Amelia Apricot, and Ticklish Tipsy Turquoise Laughing Stripes.

I also ordered a little charm pack of White Bella Solids to save me a little time on cutting.

I am going to make a sweet little pinwheel quilt out of these beautiful colors. I'll keep you updated on how it's coming along!