Little Churn Dashes Baby Quilt

 I purchased all the fabrics at my favorite fabric warehouse in Anaheim. They sell zillions of fabrics for $3.98 a yard. I usually start by being attracted to one fabric (the border fabric in this case; little woodland forest animals in orange, blue, yellow, gray) and then search for colors to coordinate with it. At this point I don't know anything more than " cute baby quilt"

Then I decide how much to buy of each.... One yard of my focus fabric and 1/4 yard if 4 others. Finally I searched stash at home and added the pale blue tone on tone and went to my "stash stripes" for the binding!

Finally I picked a pattern: 

https://youtu.be/9rgQd6asPQs

BUT I started with 9" squares instead of layer cakes since I had purchased 1/4 yard cuts. Then I removed the pinwheels to center with my focus fabric. And rearranged the black to make churn dashes so..... the pattern was just a suggestion! 

This is a baby quilt for one of the nurses I used to work with. Congratulations Asia for your new baby boy!

Garlic Knots in Reds, Whites and Blues

 Garlic Knots are an interesting block to make. I like the look of  the 6" block, so it starts with 2" strips. Thus if I buy 1/4 yards of fabric (9") I can get a 5" strip (8 charms) plus  two  2" strip (garlic knots!)  For each set of garlic knots I use 2 strips of 2 colors, a 3 1/2" strip plus a 2" strip of background. 

I use the chart at this link to strip piece my  blocks:

https://abyquilts.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/garlic-knots-hack/

I decided to set my blocks into wreaths, roughly dividing my blocks into 2 color sets and then alternating them. 

Finally I used the tiny scrap strips plus the leftovers cut from the STRIP SETS to widen the back. 

A generous 48 x 60. SOLD to Sandra, a quilt buyer who converts quilts into jackets and resells them! 

Baby Sunspots 2

 A third quilt finish with the leftover blocks from "sunspots" this little quilt is listed in my etsy store. 

Baby Sunspots

 Made with leftovers from my sunspots quilt, I like this quilt for a baby coming this year. Natalie is a nurse I worked with at TCMC. She has twin girls, then a sister, and now girl #4! 

I used darker charms for the star in the center, and lighter ones all the rest. 

 

Free motion quilted with a wavy freestyle border. A lightweight poly batting for a springtime baby. 

Sun Spots (Pecking Order)

 This super simple block has always been attractive to me. An excellent beginners block, it's just a snowballed 2.5" 9n a 5" charm. Jenny at Missouri Star calls the design "pecking order" and has a great tutorial.  

Make a "Pecking Order" Quilt with Jenny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvPX4M6_j1Q

I cut my 5" charms from my neutrals collection. A 5" strip renders 8 charms. Then a flowery charm pack was cut into 2 1/2 inch stamps. Since each charm rendered 4 stamps, you can easily see I only 7sed around half the charm pack!

I free motion with a penciled stencil loop in the border. I used a wavy line in the thin border, and generalized meander in the quilt body. 

 

The backing is a soft white muslin with a 7 inch strip to accommodate the width. 

Sold! on etsy

Churn Dash Baby Quilt

 The fabric has baby SLOTHS! How cute is that?

 I was a little disappointed si the busyness of the sloth fabric helps hide the overall black pattern somewhat. 

I used one green fabric and one paler pink fabric because I ran out of pink a few straps too soon. ECh block set (2  opposite colored blocks) used 4 strips; 2 of each color. I am envisioning this in solids. The churn dash would be quite prominent. 

https://youtu.be/SbFssq6QxNs

This is for Kayla's Baby Girl #3¡

Kitty Kat Snail Trail

 The fabrics on this cute baby boy quilt are the sweetest little kitty cats! Made for Rachel!, the life long best friend of Patty's daughter Kaity celebrating her first baby, a boy.