I finished up both baby blankets that I was working on. One is already with the intended recipient and the other is going to its new home on Sunday.
Finish #1 - Baby Spools
For this one I repeated 6 different FMQ designs in each block using white for the top and variegated pastels for the back. The designs are: flowers on a vine, stipple, square spiral, square stipple, pebbles, and a sort of elongated stipple, in that order. The quilting is quite dense overall so the post wash crinkle is intense. For the binding I found this gray with little squiggles that look almost like stripes.
Finished size: 42" x 48"
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| Front |
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| Back |
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| Glamour Shot |
Finish #2 - Summer (Spring?) Slice
For this one I did a super lazy loose stipple in variegated pink/purple. For the binding I used more of that gray squiggle/stripe with a black flange for a speedy machine binding. The tiny one took like a week and a half. This one took one day...
I also realized when I went to finish putting it all together that I had made 64 triangle blocks which should make an 8x8 quilt. However, when I was doing the top, I cleverly decided that this quilt should be a rectangle and made it 7x9. So not only is the pattern not really like the
original, but I had one random square leftover. Pure genius.
Finished size: 52" x 66"
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| Front |
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| Back (that's the leftover square) |
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| Close up |
The full gift includes a card and a little thing for a digital download of baby-friendly (but not obnoxious) lullaby music. I used
this great tutorial to fold the quilts up into little packages, thanks Kat! I also pinned on tags informing the recipients that these quilts are machine washable.
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| Ready for gifting! |
