My cousin became a Grandma! This is for her new granddaughter, Amelia. Amelia’s Mom wanted something very pink and girly. To me, a former tomboy, this is super girly. I love the patchwork pink heart, the scrappy binding and I had a lot of fun playing with the low volume prints. Patchwork remains a favorite!
Lucy and Chad are having a baby. This means that Skylar is going to be a big sister, so when I made a baby quilt, I saved the leftover squares and made a little doll quilt for the soon-to-be big sister. While Mom takes care of baby, Skylar can be right beside her, caring for her own little beanie baby, or whatever toddlers play with now.
While the baby quilt looks like squares on point, it’s actually made from the exact same hourglass blocks in the doll quilt, just arranged differently. The tops are pieced from just two yards of ombre fabrics, one in green and one in pink. I wanted the colors to flow in opposite directions, so it moves from dark green/light pink to light green/dark pink. I love the effect! Sometimes it even seems that the colors are “floating” one over the other. If you want the same fabrics, I used Simply Color by V and Co. for Moda. (Click the link to view the ombre jelly rolls — someday I MUST get my hands on one! How gorgeous is that?! I may need an aqua and gray quilt of my own … )
And oh, the crinkle!
This fabric was a joy! And now that Ansley’s little diamond quilt is finished, it’s time to move on to new/old projects. Thankfully, it just never seems to end!
In progress binding photos make me happy, probably because it means the quilt is nearly done. I’m just loving this little quilt, and I hope it will make its future tiny owner very happy!
No time to quilt it today, but I did get the top pieced. There will even be a similar-but-different doll quilt that carries on the ombre effect for the baby’s older sister.
If only my arms were longer, you could see more! The pink and green remind me of watermelon or roses, both of which are welcome this time of year.
And I always love the stained glass effect of a quilt top viewed from the back. Even on such an overcast day, it just makes me happy. The pattern of neatly pressed seams with the light filtering through is the reward of a job well done! (Well, you probably have to sew to understand that one.)
I tend to think of quilts as my big “background project”. Smaller projects jump in, like gifts for Mother’s Day and birthdays, and once they’re done I go back to my quilt in progress. But baby quilts, much like babies, have a timing all their own. My current quilting project is on hold again, this time so I can work on a little quilt I’m calling Ansley’s Diamonds.
I’m using hour glass blocks set together so they’ll form diamond shapes. The added bit of interest with this quilt is the fabric which has a nice ombre gradation to it. I’m using just one yard of green and one yard of pink, but because of the shifting coloration there are lovely variations in value. The blocks pictured here combine the darkest green with the lightest pink, but they’ll shift across the quilt to reverse to a paler green and deeper pink. Hopefully that will create a feeling of movement, something that will draw the eye back and forth over the pattern.
This one is maybe a bit different for another reason — I really don’t know the recipients all that well. I met Lucy at the gym and she’s just so sweet, and her husband Chad is, too. They’re young and kind, having their second child but still just starting out, really. (At least it feels that way to someone who’s been married 22 years!) Anyway, I’m a believer in positive reinforcement, so for their kindness alone baby Ansley gets a quilt. And if I’ve done my math right, her big sister will get a little doll quilt from the leftover squares. Otherwise I suppose I’ll be making a scrappy doll quilt!
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