Patchwork Quilt - Tumblr Posts
I have finished this baby quilt for my teammate at work, or I suppose more accurately it is for her baby.
My rule when picking fabric from my stash was that it had to have a floral element to be included. I like that despite being very floral it didn’t turn out to be girly like you might expect.
And I literally spent zero dollars on it. I even pieced together batting scraps and used some binding I had leftover from a different project.
Pattern is Antique by Villa Rosa Designs, 47" squared. I got kittens last fall and wanted to make them a baby (kitten) quilt to celebrate! Of course I just finish the binding now 8 months later 😅)
bonus cuteness while I was laying out the fabrics:
A pair of quilts I made as a gift for my partner's parents. Entirely made from scraps I was gifted and some thrifted sheets 😃
My first finished project ever: these squares (including Irene’s) were in a stack in my gram’s closet, and she let me piece them together, then showed me how to hand quilt. She’s the one who taught me how to embroider 15ish years ago, and in the past decade I’ve been back and forth with embroidery as an art form, but it felt good to work slowly with this. I want to experiment with machine quilting myself, but she’s got me sold on hand quilting. I just think it’s beautiful.
I visited a friend this weekend and forgot my knitting project so she taught me how to quilt
I find it extremely endearing that I have left my little fingerprint on her cozy quilt
Now I want to a) take up quilting and b) make a quilt and have all my friends quilt a square to have them with me always :)