chocake2's Gallery : Baby, Crib

Sprout's Star

chocake2 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:12:42 GMT

My children chose the fabrics and designed the quilt for thier new sibling. All I had to do was sew it all together! We had some trouble with the background, since the original plan was to use plain white, but that looked flat. The random pocka-dot print worked much better. I love the stripe-y binding that DD insisted I use! The backin is flannel, so it'll be extra cozy for the baby. I learned long ago to make baby quilts extra big so they can use them as they get older. By the time they start pre-school and want a snuggle blanket, it's all broken in and familure!

Baby's Daisies

chocake2 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:31:55 GMT

This is my latest project. I learned on the 3rd that I'm gonna be an almost aunty in just a few weeks (Communication is optional in this family...). I dug through my stash and found some sweet daisy-print flannel, along with a nice pink mottle print and a soft yellow to match. My 10 degree wedge ruler sure came in handy for making the medalians! The quilt is all flannel,(both front and back) so it's ultra snuggly, altho perhaps a bit heavy. I spray basted the pieces in place and quilted it at the same time I appliqued them down in order to save time. If I had it to do over again, I think I'd add a 2" border of the daisy print, but this will have to due, since I didn't have much time to plan it.

Lonestar baby

chocake2 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:53:44 GMT

This was a quilt I did for one of hubby's co-workers new off-spring. It has a flannel backing printed with more stars. He's 4 now and still snuggles it occasionally.