Sunday, March 23, 2014

Another Baby Quilt


I made this quilt for a friend's baby shower. I finished this long back but hadn't got time to update the blog and also I wanted to ship it before I post it on my blog. 

I picked a simple design for this quilt. Each completed block is about 6". When I started making it, I actually didn't know whether the owner of this quilt will be a baby girl or a boy. I didn't want to make a pink quilt so I picked other colors. Usually girls can adjust with blue colors too but I doubt if pink is enjoyed by boys. Though babies don't care about it at all but still :) I picked total 10 patterns. 5 of them for the inner block of the 6" block. Other 5 for the outer part of each block. 

Below is the pic which shows the measurements of the pieces I had to cut. Each block consists of 5 pieces. Note that I have not shown all the pieces of a block in the pic below. You need 2 of those in blue of each size. 
Mid square: 3.5” * 3.5”
Boundary strips: 3.5” * 2” and 6.5” * 2”



The organization of the blocks is shown in the pic above. Its simple, 25 blocks as organized above and stitched together with 1/4" seam allowance. I use this website for calculating yardage for the fabric needed. For this quilt I had some fabric which was already available and some I bought so you will have to do the yardage calculation yourself. 




 Above is one of the pics of the finished quilt and another one of me trying to pack it to send it to the other coast of US. I hope the new parents will like it.




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