The first quilt I ever made was a baby quilt that my Mum and I made together a couple of years ago for Lilly's pregnant pre-primary teacher.
We cut out a bunch of squares of cotton, taped them all to bits of card and snuck them in to the classroom on a day we knew Mrs Stent wasn't going to be there. Each child in the class was given a square to draw a picture for her and the baby using fabric markers (the kind you iron to set).
I must say it turned out rather well considering Mum and I had never made a quilt before. I quilted it by stitching in the ditch, and backed with some lovely bright rainbow fabric.
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We naturally couldn't give it to her without some quality control testing, so here is Gen giving it her seal of approval.
I have also made a rag quilt for Geni's bed, made completely from stuff that I had already. Although technically some of it was fabric that my Mum had already, but she let me steal it :P
It's two layers of flannel with a square of bamboo batting sandwiched in the middle. The back of the quilt is all red. For some reason I had 5m of red flannel... I honestly can't remember why I bought that much of it, undoubtedly it was going to be something good though! :P
This is how it looked when I put it on her bed, almost like I planned the colours. I love when that happens!
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And this is the quilt I just finished the other day for my brand new baby niece Sophia.
It's a stacked coins baby quilt, I used a jelly roll that I got from Spotlight and supplemented it with a couple of other fabrics I had in my stash. I now know that it is a stupid idea to prewash precut fabric. It all shrank to different widths and I didn't want to trim them all so I just went with it and ended up with stacks that didn't line up perfectly. But it turned out okay in the end!
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The back is pink/brown/white stripes with a pieced strip.
I quilted it with wonky line stitching that is between 1/4" and 1/2" apart. I was going to teach myself to free motion quilt for it, but I didn't get around to practising so I went with lines :P
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Next time I'll get rid of peg marks before I take photos! |
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