Quilting the Baby Quilt

I started quilting the baby quilt tonight. Each square is quilted and now I am quilting the diagonals across the quilt.

I really hope it turns out like the drawings I have been working on for the quilt design.

Back of Baby Quilt/Back with Top

It is hard to tell from the pictures, but the green and teal of the turtle panels match the teal and green in the geometric pattern. The binding will be from the same material in the sashing from the top.

Back

Top and Back

Baby Quilt Top Complete

This was a fun quilt to make, but a challenge for me because you don't match points, or make sure the small blocks match, etc. It is my first try at a scrappy quilt and I kept hyperventilating over the points etc. It was also very hard for me to put the blocks together without trying to make a pattern. Okay, I did throw a little bit of a pattern in, I could not help myself.

I am excited about the backing fabric and cannot wait to put it all together. Hope baby A's mom likes it.

Notice the turtles.:)

Sure wish I had a better place to take pictures. There is always a shadow on one side.

Another Craft Day

Another Craft Day at Mama C's today.

Queen J finished piecing her quilt top for the Ft. Hood soldiers.

L worked on M's scarf.

M had to go to a post wedding shower, but was here for the start and finish of Craft Day.

I worked on the turtle quilt.

L finished the most beautiful scarf in the world and gave it to me as an early birthday gift.

"Just a Baby Quilt"

I saw some thread on an internet site that would be perfect for the baby quilt I am making, but do not know the brand and the few quilters I asked do not know it either, so I went out today looking for thread.

The first quilt shop had very helpful ladies working, but very small thread selection so they suggested a second store. I have had a bad experiences with the second store, but they have moved to a new location and it was close so I decided to try them again.

They did greet me when I entered, which was new as they had ignored me in the past. They did not have a very big thread selection, but they had something close to what I wanted in a brand I did not know. I went to the front desk and explained the project and asked if the thread I had picked out was appropriate. The sales clerk explained the thread to me and said it would work on the quilt. I went on to ask her if she had any like the one I saw on the internet. She said "No, and what did it matter, it was "just" a baby quilt."

I wanted to tell her that it was more than "just a baby quilt," but instead I paid for the thread and left.

I don't consider any quilt I make to be "just." I put love and care into each one. I put a lot of thought into the fabric choices, pattern, and the person. I do not know the parents of the baby I am making the baby quilt for but the baby's grandmother is very dear to me. I would never give her grandchild a "just" quilt.

Baby Quilt, If Grandma Approves Fabric

A very dear friend recently became a grandma. I offered to make a baby quilt for her grandson.

It just so happened that she gave me some fabric that had been the baby's great-grandmother's and I am going to try to use that for the sashing.

The pattern grandma picked out:

The fabrics:

Thimbles and More Thimbles

My fingers have really been sore from all the hand quilting on the Turtle Quilt so I went to Quilt Country on Friday to get a variety of thimbles to see if they would help.

I bought a Clover Protect and Grip, a leather one with a deep dimpled end, and an UnderThimble.

I used all three of them this weekend and my fingers are much better. The UnderThimble helped a lot, and I cannot make up my mind between the Clover thimble and the leather one, so I switch between them each time I move the hoop.

I have completed one and a half sides of the border and I am very hopeful to finish this quilt soon, but obviously did not make my end of February deadline.