Incredibly fast and incredibly cute! The Playtime quilt is done!
Using the Playtime pattern
in the Sew a Modern Home (affiliate link) book,
a striped fabric and some ric rac,
makes for a super easy, fun quilt! It may be cheating, but it sure is adorable, don't you think?
The wavy line quilting adds to the playfulness, which was carried into the borders.
Though the pattern does not have borders, I added the yellow 4" border to make the finished size 40" x 40", a size I prefer for baby quilts.
And on the back, a soft flannel, and the fun quilting.
Got striped fabric? Ric rac? Need a quilt in a hurry? I definitely recommend this pattern--just too cute!
Happy Quilting!
My Favorite Patterns
Several months ago, I participated in my first mini swap through Instagram. Hosted by a member of my guild, the theme was Halloween. The hostess gave each one of us the name of another participant, along with their fabric and Halloween theme likes and dislikes. Then we were to make a mini, under 24", for this person, and this is what I sent.
My fellow swapper liked the same fabrics as me: orange, purple, black, green, and silver. But she also liked vintage Halloween images, and Dia de los Muertos, two styles which are totally out of my range. What to do? Well, it helped that she also liked cats and spiders.
Googling some Day of the Dead photos, I got an idea to make a cat face in that style. Finding a floral fabric which I could apply small bits of fusible to and cut out,
supplied all of the pieces for decoration.
Freehanding a cat head onto fusible, then ultimately on to a white fabric, bits and pieces of the floral fabric were placed around the face.
After carefully fusing everything down, the cat face was fused to a black piece which had a small edging and the ears. My only mistake was having so many layers of fusible--wish I had cut out the centers to leave a 1/4" edge of fusible. Live and learn!
Now the whole head is fused to an orange mottled piece, and everything gets stitched down with black thread, to add emphasis.
A simple border of her favorite Halloween colors was added, with some skeleton fabric squares in the corners. Stitch in the ditch quilting was all that was required here.
As for the background, it got a spider web, after drawing it on Golden Threads Quilting Paper,
so that everything would line up. I sent her some spider buttons, with her choice as to where to place a spider. Add a with a fun orange polka dot binding, some tabs for hanging, a label, and it's done! FYI, it measures around 12" square.
Now, a different person made a mini for me, using my favorite colors, and of course, cats.
Adorable! I currently have it topping one of my tables in the living room, which is now full of all things fall--lots of orange in there! Even though I don't wear orange well (pink girl--if you hadn't noticed!), I love the reds, oranges, and yellows of fall! That's my New England childhood coming through.
Have a great day quilting!
Drum roll please--the October Book of the Month honor goes to Sew a Modern Home (affiliate link) by Melissa Lunden!
A book with a wide variety of projects, it was the two baby quilt patterns that attracted me. Being that hubby told me before we left for Germany that he needs two baby boy quilts, the pressure is on. Both patterns look to be fairly quick and easy, and a hunt through my stash uncovered a print and some ricrac I've been wanting to use. The first pattern, Naptime,
uses large prints. I've chosen this cute fish print, along with blue dots, and a lively green for sashing. Fish on this print are 2-4 inches in size, so I think it should work.
The other pattern is Playtime,
which uses a stripe and some ribbon. I have a pretty blue stripe left over from a t-shirt quilt back, and bright yellow ricrac.
This one should be fun!
Tomorrow I'll start cutting and sewing, as the day is free to spend in the studio. Can't wait!
Happy Quilting!
