Another baby quilt!

 This one was fun from start to finish.

A couple of years ago I made a baby quilt for my neighbors at the apartment complex—their little girl Charlee is adorable.  It was a version of “eat sleep play repeat” that I made for Max several years ago.  

Now they have Waylon—and I wanted to do something different.  I saw the Moda fabric line “ABC…xyz” by Stacie Hsu and thought it was perfect for a little boy.  I ordered the panel and some yardage.

When it arrived, I put the panel on the design wall and stewed over it.

I am not a panel person.  I knew I wanted to cut this up.  And I wanted this to be easy.  This panel had all the letters of the alphabet with a corresponding animal.  I imported the fabrics into Electric Quilt just so I could overthink it.  

I cut out of the panel image each of the letters for Waylon's name, treating each letter as a block, and imported them to the quilt worktable.  I then added the green border around his name, and added the yellow and blue fabrics, all as individual blocks.

After I was happy with the layout, I put it all together.  Fast and easy, indeed.

Just for giggles and grins, I played around with the remaining letters in the panel for another possible quilt top, but that may wait a long while:

I got to test Cindy’s Bernina Q20 when I quilted it.  All-over meander, it was quilted in just over an hour—talk about instant gratification!  That machine is fabulous.  To celebrate, we went shopping for fabric.  

At Cindy’s suggestion, I rounded off the corners.  I made bias binding from another piece of the fabric line.  And I ran into a bit of trouble here.  I used the 71 foot and attached the binding using the technique demonstrated by Shelly Fitzgerald, but apparently I wasn’t paying as much attention as I should have and the binding didn’t always cover the edge.  When I re-watched her video, I realized I should have used my 2A foot to compress the edges of the quilt prior to attaching the binding AND cut the binding at a width of 2-1/4” instead of 2”—it would have gone much more smoothly.  Learn something new every day!

And hopefully I will remember to get a photo of the darling boy when I gift the quilt.  I haven’t seen him since we moved and I know both of the babes are growing like a weed. 

Quilt details:

Designer:  Me!
Fabrics:  “ABC…xyz” by Stacie Hsu for Moda
Size:  41” x 52”

Onward and upward—go make!