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Baby Quilts
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At first glance, this and the next quilt appear to be the same pattern.
There is one important difference. The Noah's ark print was scattered randomly
across the fabric, with little space between the motifs, so I was forced
to cut some of them out with the ship level with the square and others with
the ship going diagonally across the square. So to keep the images right-ways
up, I made the second quilt 'on point'. Looking at the close-ups makes it
easier to see what I mean. |
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Here is Storm at Sea on point. I hadn't intended to do it this way, but
once I did I liked the effect better than the 'straight-set' version. |
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This quilt block is normally called 'Baby block' because you are supposed
to make it in a square and two diamonds, using a light, medium and dark
in the same places throughout the quilt to create the illusion of three-dimensional
blocks.But I had two alphabet prints which went together very well and were both light, so I ignored the rules once again (the rules are important, but not so important as a willingness to break them when there is a reason). This color arrangement I call 'Twisted ribbons' (there is probably an established pattern by that name, but every quilter is always making up names for their variations. It's one of the perks of the game.) |
I quilted an awful lot of quilts by hand in this hoop before getting a
proper size frame. The brown 'tail' to the left is my braid, in case you
were wondering. This is a Bear's Paw quilt, with the teddies cut from a
print. Mom is holding the quilt up in the picture to the right. Mom held
up a lot of quilts and should get credit as 'prop man' at least. |
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This baby quilt uses blocks pre-printed with Teddy bears dressed to match
the profession beginning with the letter. Magician, Engineer, Astronaut,
Golfer, Nurse and Lawyer in this quilt. The backing fabric is the same one
used in the bear's paw quilt, where I cut the bears out and turned them all
right-side up. |
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| I usually prefer piecing to cross-stitching a quilt,
but when I found two kits at the thrift store which had been badly begun I
felt sorry for them, bought them, ripped out the bad stitching and redid them.
By an amazing coincidence (which seems to happen every time I make a baby
quilt 'on spec') when they were done there was a baby in the family to give
them to. |
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I was lucky that I was able to match from my own floss collection where
I ran short with the thread supplied in the kits, due to removing the poor
stitches. The one with the jungle animals later had a name stitched in the
center. |