Quite Contrary Hourglass Baby Quilt

 Well it took 7 months, but I finally have my first quilt finish of the year to share.

I started quilting 12 years ago and this is one of the first fabrics I bought and I probably bought 4 or 5 yards of it. I loved it and I still love it today. It was called Quite Contrary and I made a lot of baby quilts with it. I've finally come to the end of it with this little quilt and it may very well be my favorite:

I think this is a good way to showcase a favorite print that isn't directional - this is a better shot of the fabric on an earlier quilt 

                                         

I just pulled coordinating fabrics from my stash and made hourglass blocks. I used a pink striped flannel for the back and a dark pink with flowers on it from my stash for the binding. This peek of the back shows the cute pattern Jackie quilted across it:

I made this quilt a few years ago, but it's been at Jackie's for a while. It finishes at 42 x 52 and is patiently awaiting a sweet little baby:

Quite Contrary Pinwheel Baby Quilt

This quilt was also in the pile I picked up from Jackie a few weeks ago. This seems to be my year for making baby quilts, but the babies keep coming and I think every baby needs a quilt. :)

I made this quilt, using the same fabric about 7 years ago for our girl's piano teacher's baby:

And I made another using the same design for my cousin's baby. I had a lot of the main fabric left over so while I was in the spirit of using up oldies from my stash, I made a few more quilts and this is one of them. The fabric is from a line called Quite Contrary and I guess bought probably 4 or 5 yards of it at the time and some of it ended up here too:

There is still one more quilt top using this fabric and Jackie has it, but it's now officially all used up!

I just pulled coordinating fabrics from my stash and made HSTs, placing them into pinwheels.

It finishes at 48" x 58", making it big enough to grow into.

I backed it with Minkee and Jackie worked her magic again and quilted it using a pantograph called Primrose Swirl:

And I had just enough of this blue dot left in my stash for the binding:

On Saturday it was 110 degrees - not exactly perfect timing for Minkee, but it'll be ready for that first cold snap which can't come soon enough!