OMG August - Baby boy quilt

This summer I wanted to be craftsy - I spent a few days making a baby quilt - actually took two days off to work on it. I always wondered how some of the quilters manage to make so many creative projects ...... and well the answer I assume is ..... concentration, making time in the day (or evening) and just get going. It also means that other things not get done. I am supposed to work on the projects of my to finish list (or do list). The baby quilt was not on my to do list, however it qualified (oh how we always find an excuse) as I used mainly fabric I had bought earlier this year to make a baby quilt in "girly" colours. I went out and bought one yellow and one green/turquoise fabric and for the backing bought green fabric. The quilt thus is less red/pinkish. When taking the pictures of the finished product the yellow jumped in to my face.

For the top, as last time I made quite a number of 5 inch squares, followed by making half square triangles. Once I had 60 hsq's, I laid them out and took a picture. This helps me in seeing if the colours layout is interesting. Once I had sewn the rows together I took another picture. This is useful to detect any mistakes, sure enough there was one. At this stage it is easier to rip some seems.

The rows were sewn in pairs going one way, the pairs were sewn together in the opposite direction to ensure that the end result would be a (more or less) straight quilt. As I progress, I also end up purchasing more useful tools ..... in this case quilter's safety pins .... and I used them to attach all three layers (top, basting and back).

Sewing time. And as part of the learning process ended up using different motives of free motion quilting. My machine did not like me making loops and the thread broke of several times. So annoying. I tried a few different line styles with the FMQ foot and with the walker foot. I enjoyed making the quilt. However as I quilted quite a bit, not leaving much space between the different lines, I ended up using quite a large number of yards of thread.

I am linking up my August One Monthly Goal organized by Patty of Elm Street Quilts.

Baby boy quilt

A friend had a baby boy. Years ago I knitted baby gifts. Now that I have discovered how much I like quilting I try to make baby quilts. So this months' aim is to make a small quilt. I will use fabrics from my stash that I had bought early in the year for my happy baby quilt. Just need to change a few colours, no pink and more yellow.

For the backing I bought green fabric. Looking forward working on this project.

This is my participation in August's One Monthly Goal organized by Patty at Elm Street Quilts. The minimum to make is the top, ideally I also sandwich the quilt this month.