Friday, January 31, 2014

Mommy Plus One Quilt

I am so excited to share with you not only my first finish of 2014, but my first quilt finish ever!


My best friend, Laura is expecting a little girl March 4 and as soon as she told us she was pregnant, I knew I had to make the little one a quilt :)  The great thing is, with all the snow days we had in the beginning of January, I was able to finish it before her shower.


Laura originally told me that she wanted pink and purple as her color scheme, but when I started laying out the pluses it looked too two-dimensional with only two colors.  So I took a cue from the Erin McMorris fabric (lower right in the above pic) and pulled some peach into the quilt.


I tried to lay out the fabrics so that they were pretty evenly distributed between the different colors and shades.


I quilted it with a Pumpkin Seed walking foot design which took about 2 days, but mostly because I wasn't very comfortable with wrangling a quilt under my machine and it took me a few passes to get the hang of it.


It's backed with lavender Minky (you can also see the quilting better on the solid side) -- which is sooooooo soft!  I think I just might back all my quilts in Minky!


The binding is a Riley Blake polka dot that matched the Minky.  I machine attached it using the tutorial from CluckCluckSew.


There are a lot of firsts in this quilt for me, and I am so proud of it.  It has definitely given me the confidence to have a great (ahem lovely) year of finishes this year.  I hope baby girl gets lots of use out of it and that she loves it as much as I do!


Her mama was very happy with it :)

Quilt Specs:
36" x 53" finished dimensions (3.5" finished squares)
fabrics from a variety of designers including Riley Blake, Violet Craft, Heather Ross, Erin McMorris
backed in Minky
stitched and quilted with Gutterman thread



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Linking up with A Lovely Year of Finishes! and TGIFF!

12 comments:

  1. Such a sweet quilt! I love that quilting--I made a plus quilt for my son a couple of years ago and did the orange peel quilting on the seams, it makes such a cool design!

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    1. Thanks for the nice comment, Renee! I love how it turned out, I think I'm going to try the same motif on my disappearing 9 patch when I finish it up :)

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  2. Congrats on finishing your first quilt!!! It's a gorgeous quilt.

    I'm jealous of your quilting! The few times I've tried that design it doesn't come out looking right, at all! Yours looks great!

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    1. Thanks, Jo! It definitely took a couple seam ripping sessions before I got the rhythm down. And I had to take it really slowly at first :)

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  3. That is beautiul! What a lucky little girl.

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  4. very pretty :-) and great quilting - can't believe it was your first attempt :-)

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    1. Thanks, Deborah! I've quilted small things before but that was the first actual quilt :) It wasn't too bad, I just had to get used to wrangling it under my machine!

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  5. Very nice! Fun colour scheme too. Congrats on your first quilt finish!

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    1. Thank you! I'm very pleased with the addition of the peach :)

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  6. this is beautiful! congrats!!! i love this quilting and i agree with minky! can't believe this is your first finish :)

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    1. Thanks, Ashley! I just realized that I forgot to email you the link to the quilting tutorial because we left for vacation soon after I posted to IG, but since its in the post I guess I don't have to :p

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