Well recently a friend of mine had a new baby and I wanted to make something for the baby. Hum, so here I go on the internet looking for something that would be quick and easy. I'm not in real close touch with her and I just found out two weeks before that she was expecting and then wham the baby was here. I was still thinking about colors and patterns for a quilt and the baby was born! Well that sort of moved it up on the old time table so I was hunting quick and easy.
Let me tell you if you have never visited Missouri Star Quilter Company you have been missing out. They have wonderful tutorials that are so easy to follow. I love listening to Jenny as she explains the easy way to do things! I've already made more than one quilt from that site and they are always exactly what she bills them to be! Well Jenny has a tutorial for a self binding receiving blanket that is so awesome. Just 2 pieces of fabric, one 30" square and the other 40" square and you just sew them together and fold and sew the mitered corners, turn and then use a decorative stitch to sew the border/binding down and you are finished. These are made with flannel fabric and they are soft and cuddlesome! Easy to wash too for the new mom. I went to the fabric store and picked up the fabric for one of the receiving blankets and I had also found a changing/play pad at another site, tipjunkie.com that was another quick and easy thing to make so I made both and I guess I spent about an hour total on making both items, and they were inexpensive. The changing/play pad just took 3 pieces of flannel 1 yard each and turned out very well. Gosh now I had scrapes of flannel fabric that was just too pretty to stick in the scrap basket. Hummmm
The changing pad was made as a circle and I had cut the circle from the middle of the fabric so I had 3 pieces of fabric that had a big hole out of the center. I also had the trimmings from the receiving blanket the 30" square and the 40" square. (Now about this time I am really wishing I had taken some pictures of the receiving blanket and the scraps I had left so you could see.) Well this old brain did start to churn and I decided that I would make another flannel quilt and I would take my scraps that I had cut off and sew them into a pattern and put that in the center hole of one of the fabric pieces from the changing pad and make a nice little quilt out of my scraps. I have other things that I have made that I put circles in and it was really quick and easy but apparently I forgot how that works and cut the thing wrong to begin with and lucky for me I cut it too big and not too small so I had to take the circle out and trim it down and then put it back in and it turned out right. You do have to be careful when sewing the flannel as it has a tendency to stretch...(read understatement here).... and you have to make allowances for the stretch.
Finally I remembered to take a few pictures.
This is a picture of how the edge of the quilt looks with the circle in the square.
Some day I may learn to take good pictures, but that time has not come yet. Sorry about that but this is just a picture of what the pieced center of the quilt looks like. Just a 9-patch and then one of the other colors where I had a width of material 1 1/2" wide to use for sashing and I used most of the colors in some of the sashing so it is very scrappy looking.
Another picture of the edge of the quilt.
What can I say, now I am anxious to put a batting and backing with it and get it finished! I think I am going to have a take a tip from my friend Sandy over at FrogPond and get all of my unfinished projects together and just determine that I am going to finish one a month or something until I am caught up!
I have a quilt on my machine from Pat that is just wonderful. She does such precise piecing and it is always a joy to work on her quilts. They all look like they were made for competition! I have some from Peggy and several from Kay and another lady brought me 3 this week that are going to be so much fun. One is a feedsack quilt. I can hardly wait but got a few others I have to get finished before I can put the feedsack on the machine. In addition to that I have another lady that has asked me to make her a quilt that I have to get started on quickly but it is make the entire quilt from start to finish. I'm anxious to do that one too because we picked out an awesome pattern and she wants it to have some bling so I found some fairy frost fabric in the colors she is using to go with the other colors to give it some Beee---Ling. This should be fun.
Life is just so much fun when you're quilting! I get to retire in a few more days so I will have even more time to have fun! I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful week of quilting!
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