Friday FO or NO

He’s here!! Baby C made his appearance, so I can finally finish his quilt. I was waiting for his arrival to make his label. Now that I had a birth date I was able to embroider the label and sew it into the binding.

His quilt was a quick and easy block that took no time to piece together. I started the piecing at Quilts Plus after finding some blues that were better than the options I was trying to use from my stash. At least I was able to keep the white and gold I pulled from my house.

I love how the lighter blue hue is in the Grunge shading.

The block is a 12″ finished size so it only took 9 blocks to get a good sized baby quilt. And with the border adding 4″ more, it will be perfect for most any situation. I considered adding straight borders, but really loved the idea of continuing the design into the border.

My heat press really helped to get some flat blocks! Maybe some day I will actually try it with my sublimation printer and make T-shirts. LOL! So, the next issue was, quilting, how to quilt it. I had used a stencil on my EQ8 program that really appealed to me, so I fiddled around with my rulers until I found something that could duplicate some of the curved lines. Then I filled in with some SITD and Point to Point stitching. I kept it fairly open so the quilt would be soft and cuddly.

Baby C tried to make several advanced appearances, but decided to hang out a little longer in utero before deciding March 27th was the perfect date! So glad he has finally joined Big Sis and his Mom and Dad. His Sha-Granny, our friend, is over the moon! Good Luck Baby C, I hope. you enjoy your quilt! And your Green Bay Packers onesie, even though your Sha-Granny is forbidden from buying you any GB stuff, no one told me I couldn’t! Bwahahaha!!!

Prince Charming