Baby Quilt Mania

As two co-workers are shortly due, I simply must fly to get their baby quilts done. E. is due first, actually on Palm Sunday apropos as she is a preacher. What date could be more fitting for her first child's birth than one of the holiest days of the year. I have all the pieces cut out and am almost done with their piecing. It's the curse of cute tiny quilts. All those little pieces that will make this baby quilt adorable.

So its, been a little while since I started this.  E's baby actually came second as K. wound up going into labor first.  Even better she waited until after Easter Sunday.  Now as I am just passing their second birthdays still working on their quilts.  E's quilt is almost done, I'm just working on hand quilting it, and am so darn close to finishing.  Then its only three more for the other work colleagues who have had their children &/or are pregnant right now.

Close up of center

All laid out

Here are a few pics of her quilt from when I laid it out to sew.
Can you find the few that are mislaid?  While, I didn't find them before I sewed it all together, it just really emphasizes the homemade nature of the quilt. It also doesn't help my timeline that I've been hand quilting this one, a heart in each of the tan squares.

Part of the problem is that I like to design the quilt so much, but the actual follow through & quilting is not my favorite.  So I like to create an original design for each kid, thus I wind up spending time on that and not finishing up the quilt as I should.

New Designs

As its nearly spring time again, I thought I would share some of my spring bounties. So check out my new designs.

Origami Wedding Rings

DNA

Robot Hands

Rainbow Twist Auction Quilt

Original Design - September/October 2010

This quilt was created for an auction. Originally, it was going to be the backing for another quilt, but I liked it so much that I decided to make it a top.

The simplicity of the quilt is striking and the colors are more vibrant than they appear in the pictures. I would love to find out more about how to photograph quilts to their best advantage.

I quilted each lengthwise strip, with a decreasing labyrinth in the color of the strip. And on the strips across the width I did diamonds between the colors. With a skinny strip of minky for the binding. I am really happy with how it turned out.

Plus, I heard it was a rather hot item at the auction. Yay!