My First Baby Quilts

 

I made 2 baby quilts last month and had a blast.  I had fabrics that I had no plans for using and I thought I could make a baby quilt out of it.  Most of my fabric stash is made up of fat quarters up to about 1/3-1 yard cuts.  This makes it ideal for baby quilts.

I used my Accuquilt die cutting machine to cut 5 inch charm squares of white and 8 different prints with pink in it.  I put a pretty pink floral on the back and used the same fabric for binding.  I used a simple crosshatch quilt pattern for quilting because as long as my corners all matched-which they were very close-I could quilt without even marking the quilt top.  I am hanging onto it until I have a need to make a baby quilt.

Prior to this quilt I made another baby quilt from various blue fabrics in a 9 patch pattern..  I tried stitching in the ditch but since it was my first attempt at making a quilt top, my corners didn't match at all and my straight lines ended up zig zagging all over the place.  I decided not to do stitch in the ditch in the future since a crosshatch design is easy and turns out very nice.  That quilt will eventually go to a charity.

This is my cow quilt.  The gray looking squares are actually the words 'moo' written over and over again.

The back is white and the binding is white and again I used the crosshatch no marking quilt design that is so easy to do.

 

My Top Ten Favorite Cards of 2015

     Here are my favorite 2015 cards from previous posts.  They are in order of my top favorite to my least favorite-yet still a favorite.  You can compare them to my Favorite cards from 2012.  I didn't list my favorites for years 2013 and 2014.  I definitely see a difference in my abilities from 2012 and it's a good difference.  I hope to improve as much over the next few years.

1.  Thank You Card

2  All Occasion Card (It's white but looks light blue in this photo.)

3.     Graduation Card

   4.  Belated Birthday Card

5.  All Occasion Card

6.  Christmas Card

7.  Inspirational Card

8.  Birthday Card

9.  Child's Birthday Card

Whimsy Stamps Free Gift

 

Flowers for You

      I've ordered digital stamps from Whimsy Stamps before but when I ordered physical stamps from them they came with a free gift.  Oh how it makes my heart sing when I get a gift.

 Fistful of Flowers

  

        There were 4 images from Crissy Armstrong which she had hand colored then reproduced on glossy card stock and die cut in different shapes.  There were 3 of each design.  It is called the Summer Friends Collection.  Normally I enjoy the coloring process but it was really nice to be able to make such fast cards.

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