Wednesday, March 7, 2012

My current project - for real

Since we are still waiting for the backing fabric for the turquoise/brown quilt, I worked on this baby quilt.

I managed to find the fabrics I used for the nine patches and added a border. I think it makes the quilt more colourful.

I put it on the frame yesterday and will start quilting it today.










These are a couple of the clip art designs that I put in the plain blocks. They are all different.

These are quilting threads and I don't yet know if I will use them all. I may just stick with white. The baby is due in August and the parents don't want to know if it will be a boy or a girl so I am safe with using white, blue and pink. You don't really see the colour of the quilting thread when you quilt anyway - it's the quilting design that stands out. If you scroll down the page, you will see this quilt without the border because I showed it in a previous post.

I will be linking up with the Needle and Thread Network. Go take a look to see what other Canadians are up to.

12 comments:

  1. The border is beautiful. Makes this quilt vry special!
    Are you going to stitch the drawings?

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  2. I agree the border is really lovely. Are you going to embroider the plain panels or stitch by machine?

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  3. I really like that stripy randon border! I will have to keep it in mind for one of my next projects.

    I also thought the idea of using "printables" as quilt motifs (previous blog post) to be an excellent suggestion and I have gone to investigate few and print them up for future use...

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  4. That's really pretty, the border is great!

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  5. These are such lovely colours for a baby, especially a new born. I'll be lovely.

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  6. This is perfect for a sweet little baby - I like the idea of using the clip art for quilting patterns. Lovely!

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  7. sweet baby quilt...such beautiful soft colors

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  8. A very sweet baby quilt , are you hand quilting this or by machine?

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  9. hope that you have a fun time with the quilting-- seems like it would be relaxing with those colors to look at

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  10. cute border. And, I like the quilting designs you're using (cute selection in the previous post).

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  11. The border makes the quilt. Very nice.

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  12. The pieced border "makes" the quilt, but here no parent would put a boy under a quilt with even a smidgen of pink - sad.
    I've learned to stick to blue, yellow and green for unisex pastel baby quilts.

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