 Steeler's Fan Baby quilts are a great way to utilize your fabric stash. They're small, so you don't need much fabric and; depending on the pattern, they can come together quickly. For both of these quilts, I was able to use fabric from my stash and use the leftovers to piece the backing.  Heavensent A baby quilt is also a great way to test out some tricky blocks or shapes, because you don't need many to complete the top. For the Heavensent quilt, I used Julie Herman's Candy Dish pattern and her Hex N More ruler as a starting point.  I practiced my curved piecing on the Steeler's Fan quilt. I used the Quick Curve ruler by Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful and her Crazy Eights pillow pattern as a starting point.  football shape The Steeler's Fan quilt is for a Mom who is a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I googled Steelers' images and their colors and started pulling fabrics, while thinking "baby girl". Notice the football shapes in each block - ooh, clever.
Allover quilting designs are an excellent choice for baby quilts that will get a lot of wear and tear. I quilted meandering loops on Steeler's Fan and allover feathers on Heavensent. Notice the backings that were pieced using fabrics from the quilt top.  Here's a look at how these quilts started:
A baby quilt is a perfect first-time project:
Quilt On my friends! 
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  If you've never made yeast bread, this one hour bread recipe is a great place to start. http://www.cravingsofalunatic.com/2014/03/one-hour-bread-recipe.html I've made it several times - always sucessfully! And I'm not much of a cook. My husband likes it so much, I now make 2 loaves at the same time.  I thawed some veg soup and added some stuff to make it into minestrone by following a recipe I found online. The internet is a great way to find recipes that use up your leftovers or some food that's starting to get a little old. The minestrone turned out great and was delish with some of the fresh homemade bread - yum!  And last but not least, chicken and rice. It sure smelled good, but I got side tracked and let it cook too long. Oh well, you win some and lose some. But you should definitely try the bread!
 Crayon Blox Quilt Just got the quilt off the longarm and attached the binding. Here's the full quilt after binding:  This was a block of the month quilt project at my local quilt store. Here you can see when I was deciding how to set the blocks and an image of the top before the quilting was started. I used solid fabrics on the back so the quilting really shows - eek!  But I love how the back turned out!  Which leads to Lesson One: I think the quilting is too much for the front; it "fights" with the piecing.   And Lesson Two: The thread is the wrong color. It just looks dirty on the light colored batik fabrics. I used King Tut thread in Riverbank on the top and So Fine in Clay for the bobbin. Maybe a light gray or off white would have been better and then black thread in the solid black areas and in the outer border.  But the back is fun ;)  So, it's not perfect; but the quilt is done, I learned some useful stuff and I have more quilting experience. It's not about perfection, it's about the journey. I was pleasantly surprised with the back - maybe I should hang it like this!  |
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