Posts tagged quilting
New project: Baby Clothes Quilt
01 week ago
by Erin
Little baby clothes!
Well, I’m on to my next project! A friend of mine sent me her son’s baby clothes and asked me to make them into a baby quilt, and to use his old receiving blanket as the backer. I started laying out the onesies with central graphics out last night and ripping the seams on the others to see what I have to work with.
Have you made a quilt out of baby clothes? I’d love to see them 
ZigZag Quilt: Completed!
61 week ago
by Erin
Zig Zaq Quilt
It’s finally done! It measures about 49.5″x39.5″. I quilted it using a diamond pattern and used Quilters 80/20 Cotton. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but look what happened in the wash!
Ack!
Looks like there was some running dye, which I don’t understand because I ALWAYS pre-wash my fabrics! 
Oh well. Maybe I’ll go back and try to attack it with stain fighter or something.
Ignore my feet and curlers sticking out at the bottom.
And here’s the back of the quilt. I had some of this cloud flannel lying around, so I thought I’d use it here. I just love this print and it was hard to part with it, but I think the clouds and rainbow concept works really well. And I did end up doing a scrappy binding on the quilt, I think it looks really cute.
Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend!
My least favorite step!
01 week ago
by Erin
Will the binding ever end?
I think I’ve decided that binding a quilt is my least favorite step! You’re so tantalizingly close to finishing your quilt, there’s just this one teeny tiny thing to do first and it takes FOREVER. By the time I’m done binding I could SWEAR that I have a five, six, seven or EIGHT sided quilt and not one with four sides. It seems to go on and on.
That’s why this time I decided to try machine binding the whole thing. It was SO much faster and I’m pretty pleased with the results. It wasn’t so straight in some areas but I thought it looked good overall.
The zig zag quilt is finally finished, it’s in the washer right now getting good and crinkly for pictures, I will probably post them on Friday.
