Just Squares

 A charm pack plus 

SOLD within 2 days on Etsy. 

Kaitlin and Eric Baby Quilt

 

Baby Girl Windmills

 Commissioned by Patty. This candy picture, the idea of Spring Bunnies, and baby girl was my inspiration. 

So..... Here's what I came up with!

I decided to free motion this quilt on the JUKI, since the bobbin on my Baby Lock has been kicking my butt lately.

Based on a Missouri Star Quilts Company tutorial, made from strips cut from fat quarters and yardage. Each block was a 20x2.5 inch pair. 

https://youtu.be/eSzdUloKtpM

Baby Quilt Savor Party Scraps

 Patty fell in love with the Savor Party Silent Auction Quilt and asked for something similar for a new baby! 

Little Christmas Baby Quilt

 

https://youtu.be/Q1TTnZKkuqQ?si=u_3rmQcUtBXsLwmQ

Another Baby Geese Quilt

 Awwwww geese. Almost feel like I can make them with my eyes closed! 

I bought these fabrics together on one of my Anaheim trips. Fun deciding how to pay them out. 

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Flying Geese for Baby

 I was asked to make a new baby quilt for a Great Grandchild (We are getting to that age!) for the baby of the church's choir director. She expressly asked for the "same quilt" I made for Dawn including the border fabric... a road map in neutral colors. This is the quilt Virginia fell in love with:  

http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2023/02/happy-geese-2.html

The request was similar colors, not "baby colors" for a boy arriving in December. Okay! 

I used a basic 2“ geese; Cut body 2.5 x 4.5 and wings are 2.5" squares, snowballed on. 

Nice, huh?

I went to Anaheim after searching and not finding any more of the maps in my stash.... no luck finding THAT fabric, but found something similar. And $125 of other necessities. Uh huh. 

I did use some greens and blues juvenile fabrics.... cars and animals (and even a little paw patrol!) mixed with floral and geometries. No strong pinks..... still traditional like that. 

A large variety of neutrals for the geese wings. Very similar sideways setting, the map border.... simple loops quilting and a swoop border. Great bright stripe binding, blue and white back..... DONE!

Quilting loops and swoops

Quartered Stripes Baby Boy

 Inspired by this thin stripe and the quilt tutorial about using stripes to make blocks, this quilt came to be. 

https://youtu.be/l8xgM1H2X18?si=kJjApt_wU1WdBKmj

Although I made it a few years ago I just finished it and like it a lot more finished than I ever did before. I tried using a thin fleece blanket instead of batting and it makes for a very soft, cozy quilt!

Quilted then on the frame with a square in a square pattern then fun in the solid borders. 

I love to do borders free hand free motion. Very different from the body where I have a larger area to work on within the frame. 

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Pony Express Baby Quilt

 100% leftover blocks from a project I sold to Mauricio (for his sister) several years ago. 

https://youtu.be/SalR4rtGxmU?si=Q8p1srRhvp7BlhQg

5 leftover blocks. Pete bought them for me after a "hint" about wanting him to buy ne the daily special on Missouri Star WEB site. It was a $50 gift cert of $25 that they sell once a year right after Christmas. 

Pete waited a day or two and bought rhe daily special THAT day. It was a "layer cake" in this color collection I would normally not have purchased. They made some lovely quilts!

 

Bold Baby Blocks

 Made to learn and experiment with the process of tumbling blocks. 

I have the template and used this turorial: https://youtu.be/ytcpvfoAV8A?si=V6JRvJOBhZxXeDBw

From the scraps bins. May use charms. 

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Baby Under The Sea

 I just finished another darling baby quilt using the Missouri Star tutorial on the Ohio Star Quilt.    https://youtu.be/Dh6K4zUnfw8?si=9x0Cp4Y-dKvSJKfl

Made for Virginia, the organist at St Andrew's for a grand-nephew. She liked the quilt I made recently for Patty and asked for something like that. https://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2023/10/outer-space-baby-quilt.html?m=0

The fabrics for the most part came from my Under The Sea fabric collection, inspired by baby quilts made for my Grandson and other fishy quilts made over the years. 

The back is a great piece I picked up at JoAnn at their Black Friday sale for $3.99/yards and the scraps and bits leftover from the tiny 6 1/2" Ohio Star blocks. 

The sashing is a great watery swirl with cornerstones of shells and fish in a pretty aqua green. 

The overall quilting is big curvy circles and serpentine lines in the borders.