"Sweet Vintage Bunny" Baby Quilt

Tiffany, a really sweet friend of mine, was having her first baby - a sweet little girl!  A week and a half before her baby shower, I was debating what to get her for her gift.  I felt like the typical diapers, outfit, and toy gift was so impersonal, but I wasn't sure if I had time to make a quilt!  Finally, I just decided that I was going to make her a quilt.  I sent her a message to find out how she and her husband were decorating the baby's room.  pale pink, light grey, and vintage bunny - ahhh, so adorable, but really hard to find!  So I went to my trusty sewing friends.  One awesome friend mentioned a line a fabrics that was the most adorable... and perfect!  The next day, I ordered the fabric bundle. The fabric arrived on a Wednesday and the shower was on Saturday!  I decided on a simple design and started cutting the fabrics! Unfortunately, some the fabrics that I ordered for the sashing and the binding did not match at all when I layed them out!  I went to my stash and luckily found matching fabrics.  I even had enough!  I worked for the next few nights to get it finished.  But as luck has it, my son was sick the day of the shower, so I was only able to stop in for about half an hour on my way to the store for medicine! Tiffany and her husband loved the quilt!  I hope their sweet baby girl spends many years snuggling up in the quilt!

 

Close up of the fabric and the quilting!

Adorable bunnies!!

 

I love the simplicity of the back!

"Let's Go" Baby Quilt

This quilt was made as a donation for a raffle for a friend whose husband died unexpectedly.  My friend was a stay-at-home, homeschooling mama to her amazing daughter.  In an instant her life turned upside down and she became the sole provider for her family.  A group of my friend donated items to be raffled with the proceeds going to our friend.  This is the quilt I made for the raffle.

"Vroom, Vroom!" Kid's Quilt

In addition to the two Hello Kitty quilts that my friends asked me to make for their nieces, they also asked me to make two quilts for their nephews.  Connor and Noah, just like most little boys, are huge fans of Lightning McQueen and Cars.  Again, thanks to Etsy, I was able to find some super cute Cars fabric!  And what goes better with Lightning McQueen than some red fabric, black fabric, checkerboard fabric, and tire tread fabric?  I am in love with the black and yellow tire tread fabric!  Perfect for little boys!

"Hello Kitty Galore!" Kid's Quilts

My friends Deanna and Donovan have four of the most adorable nieces and nephews.  For Christmas, D & D asked me to make a quilt for each child.  I started with the quilt for their nieces.  Ashby and Lizah are two  sisters who love Hello Kitty! We decided to make the quilts similar style, but not exactly the same.  After a lot of searching I found the most adorable Hello Kitty fabric on Etsy.  I went with yellow sashing for Ashby's quilt and light green sashing for Lizah's quilt. As someone who was not a fan of Hello Kitty, the cuteness of this quilt might just have converted me!! 

The names were appliqued on! 

The backs!

"Echino Excellence" Quilts

After I made the "Ooo, Ooo, Ah, Ah"  baby quilt set for my friend Jenna, she asked me if I would make two more quilts for her.  She fell in love with some Echino fabric and bought enough to make a twin size quilt for each of her two sons.  As most of us mom's have it, she just didn't have to time to get the quilts made and asked me to help her out!  I was happy to help!  She sent the fabric to me and it was excellent!  She wanted to feature the fabric and keep it in nice big, beautiful blocks!  This required some time to figure out the math.  I had to get each block to fit together, keeping the blocks intact as much as possible while also getting the end result to be the right size.  It was worth it!

The quilting for these quilts was complicated but rather easy at the same time.  And I never think that the quilting part is easy!  Lol!  Again, in order to feature the fabrics, I chose a thread color and design to match each block of fabric.  This required about 25 different colors of thread.  For each block I chose the design of the quilting, drew it with a washable pen/pencil (yes, I went through about 4 of them!!), then stitched using the coordinating thread.  The complicated part was finding matching threads for each color and deciding on the design to quilt.  But because I was quilting a relatively small space, I didn't have to maneuver the whole quilt through the machine.  Quilting to match each block was time consume, but enjoyable and so worth it!

The quilts turned out fantastic!  They are so bright and colorful!  So awesome!

Both quilts together!  Such awesome fabrics!

The backs of each quilt!  I love the fabrics Jenna chose for the backing! You can also see the differences in the quilting for each block!

 

A blue stripe ...

and green dots!

"Spiders and Robots from Outerspace!" Quilt

After seeing some pictures of quilts that I've made, my sister called me up and asked me to make a quilt for her oldest son.  It was a no brainer - I would be thrilled to make him a quilt!  I sent her some links and suggestions and she decided on the design for the quilt.  After going back and forth on a few ideas for the theme of the quilt, she finally decided to just ask her son what he wanted the theme to be.  His answer was definitive - he wanted spiders, robots, and spaceship!! Perfect for a little boy!  So my sister set off to search Etsy for spider fabric, robot fabric, and spaceship fabric!  She did an awesome job and found some REALLY cool fabrics.  I have to say, this turned out to be one of the coolest kid quilts I've seen!

For the binding I decided to go with a scrappy binding using the leftover fabrics from the quilt!  I normally am not a fan of scappy binding, but after looking a lot, I just couldn't find a fabric that was perfect for the binding.  I am so glad I went with the scrappy binding.  It gives the perfect finish to the quilt.  To quilt, I stitched just inside and outside each square/border!

And by the way, her son LOVES his quilt!  Anyone that came to their house got a tour of his room to show them the quilt!  I love it!

**UPDATE** June 2013 - I finally got a chance to visit my family in Ohio this summer!  We stayed a few nights at my sister's house.  The first words out of my nephews mouth when he first saw me was, "Thank you for my blanket.  I love it!"  So awesome!!  I love it!

Check out the awesome fabric!  Love it!

The back spaceship fabric! 

Close up of the quilting around each block.

The scrappy binding was perfect for this quilt!