Easy as pie baby quilts - and Finally Finished!

Make lemonade from lemons, right? And I’m a huge fan of lemon pie.

Fifteen years ago I started a quilt (actually, several quilts were started) and did not finish it. This was back in the days of owning a quilt shop where my eyes were bigger than the time I had to get things done. 

A book by Sandy Bonsib—“Sweet Treats”—had several easy-to-make quilts, each based around two blocks, and all named for pies and other desserts.  

At the time, I thought it would be a good idea for a club at the quilt shop. I started with the Lemon Chiffon Pie quilt. I chose the fabrics, cut the pieces, and sewed up many blocks, and then we closed the shop. The blocks sat in a bin until this past December. I needed a baby quilt and I culled blocks from the project and came up with this:

Free-motion quilted

Scrappy binding was good for this one.

I had machine embroidered a label for the back and was not happy with it. I ended up embroidering Luke’s name on a piece of the background fabric and bordered it with a scrap from one of the many prints used in the blocks, and stitched it to the front of the quilt.  

It’s done.

The backing was a cute print I purchased at an estate sale a couple of years ago. 

Lots of blocks were leftover, and I had intentionally not used any blocks with pink in the above baby quilt—odds were good that the baby would be a boy and it was! I then learned that our new neighbor was having a girl in April (but she arrived in early March, and is still in NICU). I got it quilted last weekend and took it and a pan of red velvet brownies over to their home. I can’t wait to meet the sweet baby girl! They hope she’s home in a month. 

Sorry for the cruddy quality of the photos, but I realized as we were walking out the door to deliver the quilt that I had not taken any photos, so I hastily snapped a shot of the front and back in the late afternoon...

The backing and binding all came from my stash, and I love how this mish-mash of fabrics works. This one is a little bit bigger than the first one, and when the top was pieced, 5 blocks from the original project remained.  I’ll figure out something to do with them. 

The first one was free-motion quilted; the second one was all straight lines with the walking foot. I love both of them. But I’m absolutely thrilled that a 15-year-old UFO from The Bins is out the door! The Finally Finished 2024 list is growing. Eventually I will have at least two more quilts from Sweet Treats and maybe one of them will be completed this year, but we'll see.

I’m back to the Tattoo quilt. Progress report soon! In the meantime, go make!