2017 projects

2017 didn't go by without any quilting.  I completed four baby quilts to give away as gifts.  Remember on a previous post - I don't make many small quilts.   In my opinion a baby quilt needs to be big enough for a baby to grow into a toddler and drag around to wear out.

Here are the quilts:

This quilt was given to little Harry.  His family is currently living in Buffalo, NewYork while his mother is finishing college.  They plan on moving back to Michigan after she graduates.  I decided to use the colors blue and orange to remind them of home - the Detroit Tigers.   The fabric has bicycle motifs.   Will be glad when they move back to Michigan and I will be able to see little Harry grow.

The fabrics used are a collection from Maywood called "Cycles of Life"

Harry's quilt

A beautiful baby girl was born in September, Nyla.  Nyla's nursery is decorated in pink and gray.  I found this beautiful fabric with little forest animals - which is appropriate for our neck of the woods - northern Michigan, that had the perfect colors.  Although the picture of the quilt below the color looks peach it is pink.

The main print is by Moda, "Just Another Walk In The Woods"

Nyla's quilt
The quilt pattern is called Crossing Paths by Free Spirit

With leftover fabric I made a fabric basket and filled it with some goodies - a book, diapers and wipes.  What I thought would be an inexpensive way to bring as a gift to the newborn ended up being costly with the foam padding and interfacings this pattern required, but there was enough left over for another basket or two and it worked out great.

Nyla's matching fabric basket

A baby shower held in November was for a baby girl.  She was born in January of 2018 - Allayna.  This quilt was made from scraps of the above Nyla quilt, "Just Another Walk In The Woods" plus a pop of lime green color that was picked up from the main fabric. As mentioned above there was enough fabric and interfacing/padding to make another basket so I made one for Allayna too.

Allayna's quilt

And last but not least at the end of 2017 a beautiful baby boy was born, Evan.   My eldest son, Dave, came with me to the quilt shop to pick out some fabric.  Evan lives in Minnesota with his new family, so again a woodsy theme seemed appropriate.  This pattern is from a kit (I am not one to use kits very often, but this one was perfect).  Well almost perfect - I added pops of mustard colored fabric throughout the quilt to break up the natural and black colors.

This fabric is from Moda called "Thicket".  I love the pen and ink drawing look of this fabric line.

Evan's quilt

My son Dave is showing interest in my sewing/creating.  For Christmas gifts he sewed t-shirt pillows.  I showed him how to get started and he just took off.  He said I hovered over him and needed to give him some space.  Oppps.  I guess that is what Moms can do.  He did a fantastic job and makes me proud.

So as you can see 2017 had this midnight stitcher burning her candles and quilting away.