Her's (& mine) First Quilt

Here is my Baby Girl's first quilt....and her Mommy's too! I had always wanted the colors grey and yellow no matter if I was having a boy or a girl....I attribute this to me needing to start projects;)) Of course I had found and cut the fabric over a month back, (I even have a bigger size version of this quilt, just so I could have two size options;) but once I got to the point of the squares sewed together, I kind of panicked. I had never tackled an entire quilt by myself, but I'm pretty darn proud of myself. Thank goodness there was a Law & Order SVU marathon on yesterday, because I literally brought transported by sewing station to the kitchen table and worked on this throughout about 5 episodes;)

Since getting my sewing machine and doing a bunch of different projects, I have come to realize I am not a huge fan of following patterns (like the ones you purchase at Joanns) because I get frustrated. So with this quilt project I knew I wanted to have the "just go for it" attitude. I used a blog I follow....http://susanweinroth.typepad.com for reference. Although I love her scrapbooking, she has done some adorable quilts and articles for Fiskars.


Here are a couple pictures of the final product::::I even used a new quilting stitch on my sewing machine to create the top stitching for each square! Although on her directions for completing the binding,she pinned and hand stitched after sewing the binding piece on.....I quickly figured out a way to use my sewing machine, because there was no way I was going to hand stitch around the entire perimeter! Well, it worked! Now her beautiful quilt is hanging over her empty bed.....Now I just need to order the fabric so I can start making her bedding;))))






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