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BRIGHT BABY QUILT

25 06 2016

BRIGHT BABY QUILT

For a friend’s grandchild, I designed a really bright and playful quilt. I am not personally a fan of pastel quilts, because I know babies react to bright colors; so this square in a square in a square quilt was fun to do. An array of related prints framed in contrasting colors, some of which had appliquéd squares inserted onto the centers worked well for my concept. It was backed with a stash fabric of smaller bright squares in primary colors. The parents-to-be were very happy. I hope the baby will be too.

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib, Primary Colors, Uncategorized

Baby Braids Green

31 05 2014

I made this pale green version of a quilt I created for my grandniece. I used softer colors, using the same 1930’s reproduction prints. A light green inner border is framed with a darker green outer one.

“Soft as a whisper” child’s quilt

Detail of half-hexagons used to create braids

Pale sashing directs attention to focus fabrics

Folded in half, awaiting the quilting.

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Categories : Crib, Geometrics, Pastels, Uncategorized

Outer Space

31 05 2014

This bright quilt was made for my grandson Estifanos, who at a very young age, was fascinated with the moon. I found a panel of fifteen different space images, cut it up into individual pictures. I selected vivid primary colored prints of suns and stars for the frames, and sashing, and finished with an over all yellow backing of suns. It is out of this world, and he loves it.

Details of some panels

Phases of the moon

Saturn and corner detail

Reverse, images of the smiling sun.

The Shuttle

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib, Lap Blanket, Primary Colors, Triangles, Uncategorized, Wall Hanging

Boy Blue – Take II

25 05 2013

This quilt was made from additional fabric leftovers from a prior quilt. I recut the wedges into narrower slices, and put them together on cloth foundations, sew and flip style. Playing on my design wall, I decided upon alternated directions for the blocks, then just framing the quilt top in red, white and blue. It has a bright, patriotic look.

I mitered the corners of the three borders.

Portrait

Closeup of blocks on design wall.

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Categories : Brights, Crib, Geometrics, Primary Colors

Baby Boy Blue II

26 02 2013

This quilt was made for a grand nephew, Conor. I wanted to use a large number of light to medium blue fabrics, and break it up with splashes of red, and really dark blue. Running the wedge shaped patches in sequence created an even flow of color and balance. Sashing the rows with a white print with red and blue stars, and framing it in dark blue tied it all together. I quilted each patch with curved lines, which created a flowing motif across the quilt.

1 Portrait

Reverse side

3 Quilting detail

2 Closeup

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Categories : Brights, Crib, Strips

Matched Pair for a Matched Pair

26 02 2013

When my niece Meaghan gave birth to a set of identical twin girls, I came up with this color scheme, lively and bright. I used a pattern by Liz Porter, of Fons & Porter. The fabrics were a matched set of precut squares, transformed into “snowballs” by the addition of flipped yellow triangles in all four corners of each precut patch. The quilts are bordered in a dark pink floral, and backed with an allover pastel pink floral. Each “snowball” was quilted with a five petal flower. To enable Meaghan to tell the quilts apart, I just arranged the blocks in a different order.

Reverse side

On the design Wall

Shifting the patches for the second quilt.

4 Bright Colors for Babies

Portrait photo

“Snowball” closeup

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib

Window Panes

25 05 2010

This quilt was a study in setting in corners. The soft blue and yellow of this quilt makes it ideal for a baby boy’s room, or stroller. The pastel blue and white print, with touches of red are the basic squares. They are set off with blue and yellow marbled fabric for the sashing. I used yoyos tied on with small leaf shaped buttons as a finishing detail.

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Basic Squares, Crib, Pastels, Wall Hanging

Hailey 1

23 05 2010

This quilt is a variation on the Solstice quilts. I loved making the curved blocks, and, utilizing pinks and greens with some darker elements made a sweet baby quilt for my grandniece. I added prairie points for a delicate edging in the two primary colors. The backing fabric is a very dramatic black with pink and green print.

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Categories : Crib, Curves, Pastels

Baby Boy Blue

11 05 2010

This quilt was constructed of simple squares in a blue-on-blue pattern. I used a dozen light blue, and a dozen of dark blue fabrics. By arranging them alternately with bright red centers, this one-patch design becomes quite interesting. This was inspired by Pat Yamin’s One-Patch Scrap Quilts. I made two of these for my great nephews Aiden and Jonathan.

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Categories : Basic Squares, Crib, Primary Colors

Baby Dots 1

6 05 2010

This child’s quilt is perfect for crib, stroller, car, or Grandma’s house. The colors are bright, the pattern simple, and children can learn their colors by playing on it. I found a collection of polka dot fabrics in so many colors, I had to make something that used all of them.