My best friend Barbara and her husband had another grandson born last Friday night. He is going to be called Seth. Unusual name, keen to know the background to their choice.
I had already made the quilt as they knew the baby was going to be a boy. I wanted to make a completely different quilt quilt from the one I made for his big sister which was Bonnie Hunter’s Wonky Wishes. So I went back to a design I have used several times before. It’s from a book called Scrap Republic by Emily Ciers. The pattern finishes at 30” square but I wanted the quilt to be larger so I added a double border which brings it up to 42” square, the size I prefer for a baby quilt. It’s useful to use as a play mat and then when baby is older and it’s safe to use as a cot quilt it can then be used that way too,
I needed to buy new fabric for this gift and found some lovely fabric online. I fell in love with the frog fabric so this became the outer border and backing too. The inner border and binding were made from a lovely green bubble fabric.
I have called it “Playing I Spy in Frog Pond”
A close up of some of the I Spy circles, all echo quilted with two rows of Perle thread stitches.
The green bubbles fabric was used in baby Seth’s quilt and I had some turquoise solid fabric similar to the background of the I Spy circles, so I thought that was a nice link. The white and dark blue tips of the stars were all waste triangles from a bag gifted to me by one of my Patchwork Group about 18 months ago. I had real fun making this quilt and I’m glad I decided to go with just two background colours. The star centres were all from my box of 2” squares.
Posted yesterday so hopefully the parcel with arrive today.
The new baby will have fun with the I Spy quilt when he's a little older and I should think his big sister will be happy to have her dolly have a quilt just the same as hers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Maureen. I always enjoy making baby quilts.
ReplyDeleteOh, those are two of the cutest quilts. Way to go!
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