A Quilt for Baby J

My best friend has two sisters, an older and a younger, both of whom I am very fond of. A few years back we were all at a party and I was talking with her older sister. She is incredibly clever and a lot of fun, someone I wish I had the opportunity to spend more time with. As you would have it, she happened to be single at the time, and up walked a good friend of my brother in law. I looked at him, I looked at her. "Have you met?"After a quick introduction I quietly slipped away. They are now married and last spring had the cutest and happiest baby on the planet, little Baby J.

As soon as I found they were having a boy I started planning a quilt. On a trip to my local Craft Warehouse I found a line of robot fabric in wonderful colors, lots of teal, orange and navy blue. Instantly falling in love, I grabbed some FQ's and started thinking about what pattern I wanted to use.

A quilt that I pinned on good ol Pinterest and later used for another friends baby came to mind and I felt it was perfect. The quilt is simply titled Fat Quarter Quilt and its from Two Little Banshees. (http://neverenoughhours.blogspot.com/2010/08/fat-quarter-baby-quilt-tutorial.html)

I really like that it uses FQ's and its a nice size, not so big that it becomes unmanageable and not too small for it to grow with baby a little. Because I wanted some of the fabrics to be more dominant than others I altered the cutting plan a little bit. After I had it pieced I quilted it on my sewing machine with straight lines on either side of each main seam line. Using my walking foot as a guide I lined it up with the seam and stitched across in an orange thread. There were a couple sections where I had no seam line to follow, so I used blue masking tape to mark the lines. I have had no issues using masking tape to mark lines like this, never having any residue left behind. However, I never leave it on for very long. If I am remembering correctly it only took me one good day of quilting to complete. Another day to sew on the binding and then hand sew to finish and I was done.

I am very happy with how this quilt turned out. Baby J is also one of the cutest and sweetest babies I've met in a long time. It always makes me happy to make a quilt for a little one so sweet and loved. So much love and good energy goes into the making, that I have to feel like it passes on to the recipient. 

Ta for now! I hope to show some more of my completed projects soon.

Molly