My baby quilt is finished! It's pieced, quilted, embellished, bound, and it has a label. Did I leave anything out? I can't wait to give it to my sister. It feels like it was a group effort because lots of people have given me advice and encouragement. So let's have a group happy dance for a finished quilt.
You left out pictures! When do we get to see pictures???? Spike and Giles are busy playing right now, so I'll Happy Dance without them for your finished quilt!!
Great job! If we can't see a picture, can you tell us which block you used and which colors? How big is it? How did you bind it? Did you quilt it or tie it or use buttons or what? We need details!
I freezer paper applique'd 3 royal blue hearts onto sunny yellow backgrounds and 3 vice versa. Then I stack-n-slashed them and joined them back together to make whacky heart blocks. The blocks are 6" square. I alternated the whacky heart blocks with pale blue plain blocks, like this:
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Then I added a 3" string-pieced border, mitred, made from the same fabrics as the blocks. So the quilt is 24"x30".
I made the quilt sandwich with 80/20 batting and a flannel (brushed cotton) backing in Cobalt blue. Then I machine quilted it.
I quilted around the hearts, then echoed the heart shape inside at 1/4" intervals. I quilted the same "hearts-within-hearts" pattern onto the plain blocks. I quilted the background (not the border) with a 1/2" grid of diamonds (not squares-on-point, but diamonds twice as tall as they are wide). I SITD-ed the border.
Next I buttonholed stitched around the hearts in black, because some of the outlines had become distorted during the stack-n-slash process. I "smoothed over" the steps in the outline and made them more heart- shaped. It makes them stand out better, too.
I double bound it in sunshine yellow, with mitred corners and everything. There is a pre-printed label on the back with: "MELANIE RIMMER POYNTON 2003 FOR BABY SMITH #2" on it, written in fabric marker pen.
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