Big Girl Quilt

I loved watching my niece's monthly photos of her daughter's first two years.  Every month, she posted a photo showing her growing up.  She used a backdrop of a piece of fabric for each photo.  Of course I was attracted to that idea as well!

When her daughter turned 2, the monthly portraits stopped.  I asked her then to give me the fabric pieces, and set to work on her big girl quilt.  It's a happy riot of color and shape!

A companion to this quilt can be found here:  http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2017/06/big-sister-quilt.html

Baby Quilt Challenge

At first I told my friend I didn't have TIME to make her a baby quilt..... but she was persistent, so I told her to get me 6 FQ's of the fabric of her choice.

Then she bought several fat quarters, her themes were "panda bears and soccer balls" and she found an eclectic assortment of black/red/white fabrics with those themes.  What drew them together was color, bot scale, theme or size.  I was smitten!

I put them together in a cut 6" blocks split nine patch.  At first, I was putting solids (red, black or white) in the center piece and neutrals in the rectangular spots.  Too dull!  Then I started a total mix up.  Much better.  Anything goes!  I had a square of white fabric with "AMEN" in black, and 2 squares (stars on them) my friend got as a "bonus" when she bought her fabric on ebay.

I really like it!

Exciting Lines Baby Quilt

This quilt was made after watching a tutorial someplace... Don't you hate when you can't remember WHERE??? . It used a yard (or was it a yard and a quarter?) of a stripe and a 4" border. That's it.  It's all in the cutting and putting it back together!

I choose this for the newest baby in the family! Happy Ned.

Found the YouTube tutorial!

https://youtu.be/l8xgM1H2X18