My first nearly finished Quilt
A family friend had a baby boy recently and I had to make a quilt for her little boy. I decided to use the Charm Squares Baby Quilts Pattern by Elizabeth Hartman. You can find the free pattern on her website here.
Spotlight had a sale where all fat quarters were $1. I managed to find 4 robot themed prints to use. Unfortunately there is no mention of the fabric designer on the selvage.
The pattern asked for 5 different prints so I had to use a blue solid coloured homespun fabric as a 5th print for this quilt. I decided to use the solid colour to separate the print fabrics and used one of the print twice in each row to form an “X”.
Finished Quilt Top
One thing good about a small quilt is that it is really easy to baste on my dining table :).
Basted Quilt Top
Close up of the robot themed fabric
I used a walking foot to quilt roughly straight lines 1 inch apart using the guide that it came with. LOL I definitely need more practice :).
Quilted baby quilt
Quilted baby quilt
Below are pics of the front and back of the quilt with first stage of binding done. I recently unpacked some stuff (we moved 18 months ago) and discovered a packet of Bobby pins for hair. I trailed them while sewing on binding on my first Mug Rugs and loved it. No more poking myself with pins while adjusting and sewing on the binding :). I am new to quilting so I am sure others would already know about this.
Front of Quilt with Bobby Pins holding binding in place
Back of Quilt with Bobby Pins holding binding in place
Close up of binding with bobby pins
Now to finish hand sew the binding and hope my friend and her baby boy likes it :).
Gemma at Pretty Bobbins is having her first “I Quilt” linky party (4th Oct 2013) and I thought I would join in with this blog post :). You can find out more information here:
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What a great quilt Jenn! I love how you used the solids and that print is super cute 🙂 I love the idea of using bobby pins to hold your binding down – so clever! I use bulldog clips for the corners and then just hold the rest in place as I sew 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up!
Thank you kindly Gemma :). It is not as gorgeous as your quilts but I am happy with my first quilted quilt :). Currently hand sewing the binding and added a close up pic of the binding with a couple of bobby pins to the blog post :). Thank you for hosting a fun linky party :).