Baby Quilts

Baby Quilts 

 A few weeks ago I got to take home some flannel scraps for baby quilts. I was especially charmed by the pretty pinks, oranges, and yellows!

I started with 1/4 yard of four different flannels for the top, and 1 yard of flannel for the backing. From each 1/4 yard, I was able to cut 16 (4.5 inch square) blocks.

I choose two fabrics to form a block (four blocks are pictured)

Blocks ready to sew

Using my 1/4 inch presser foot

All seams pressed in the same direction

When rectangle is inverted, seams on back will point in opposite directions

Squares sewn in strips of four

Each strip sewn to form the square quilt top

Each square is pinned and ready to be tied

Finishing Method #1

 

I wanted to try something different for this quilt. Instead of binding it, I put the wrong sides together and sewed a 1/2 inch seam around the outside. Then I cut 1/4 inch snips every 1/4 inch around the outside. I hoped that when I washed it it would make a fluffy fringe. It didn't look perfect, but I thought it was cute!

It got a little wrinkly in the wash :(

Finishing Method # 2

For the girl blanket, I opted to go with a 2 inch border and binding.

After sewing the border, I used the embroidery function on my machine to do a little snowflake in the middle of each square. I started in the center of the quilt and worked my way out. This ended up being much quicker and prettier than tying it myself.

Snowflake embroidery

1 1/4 inch binding - cut with the grain of the fabric and machine sewn (as opposed to bias cut, mitered corners, and hand stitched)

So...I ran out of steam to talk about how I actually did the binding. Sorry! The reason I put all this on here is because these are the sorts of things that I wonder about. And I forget how to do it if I don't write it down for myself.

 

The Girl Quilt - I love it!