Sweet Pea Baby Quilt

 Seems like I've started an awful lot of projects lately and  it's been a coon's age since I finished anything. I've been working on potholders and then suddenly an idea popped into my head for using the rest of this teddy bear fabric for another baby quilt so I started yet another project. The first one was given away the day after I finished it.

But I picked up a few quilts from Jackie on Monday and today I finally have a finished quilt to share. This one goes to the newest addition of a family we've known since we moved here 12 years ago. They own the local vet supply store and our kids spent a lot of time together as they were growing up. This quilt is for their first grandchild.

I had a yard of this sweet print in my stash

 and with the addition of pinwheels made with fabric from my stash:

 And some leftover green from a previous project for a border:

it became this:

I didn't use a pattern, but I cut 6 1/2" squares and then made 6 1/2" pinwheels for the alternating blocks. It finished at 48" x 48". I liked the idea of pink and green together so I backed it with pink minky:

Jackie used white thread and a panto pattern called Quirky to bring it to life:

I'm not usually drawn to orange and I have only a few pieces in my stash, but the colors in this quilt reminded me of sherbet and this orange print just seems to be a really good fit:

By the way, I had no idea that the correct spelling is 'sherbet', not 'sherbert'.

So I'll add that to my 'learned something new today' list. Still, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks and according to some of the reading I did on 'sherbet', you may be considered a Neanderthal if you call it 'sherbert'. I DO tend to live under a rock so perhaps that statement is more true than I would like to think! :)

I'm also adding it to my grocery list because I'm suddenly craving it and I haven't had it in years. :)
And on Monday, this little quilt will be snuggling with a sweet little girl

Digging in the Stash

While I'm cooking this week, I'm spending a lot more time inside until I've cleaned everything up after the noon meal and I make the feed run. That leaves me little pockets of time to sneak into my sewing room and see what kind of trouble I can get into. I'm attempting to use up some of the fabric I seem to have collected over the years. As quilters, it seems we're all trying to do that. You would think we would see a decrease in the stacks at some point! I had a yard of this fabric in my stash and I needed a quilt for a baby girl so I set about trying to come up with a way to use it: I started by cutting 6 1/2" squares from the fabric:

I pulled some coordinating fabrics and set to making pinwheels, hoping it would all come together:

And before long, a top was born:

This is one I took to Jackie on Saturday.While I was digging, I also ran across this leftover from a backing and used it for a border

The problem with digging is that one thing leads to another and I run across something else I had forgotten about and a new project is born. But then again, that's not really a problem. :) I made this quilt from a kit about 5 years ago for our niece's first baby

 and I had forgotten that it included this cute panel.

I loved this line and wanted to use every piece so I took the next step and cut up the squares:

I've still got some scraps from the original quilt and the backing, as I backed the quilt with something else:

I'm leaning towards making a square in a square with each little piece, hoping that'll keep the focus on the fun designs. Time to do a little more digging or I guess in this case, I'm 'fishing' for the right fabrics. *grin*