A baby quilt gifted to Freddie.

A while ago I made a lovely baby quilt using  some blue scraps and RSC Wonky Stars which I put aside to gift to my Great niece Becky’s baby boy expected mid October. As I said, my sister Pat died a month ago and baby Freddie would have been her first Great Great Grandson. Pat knew Becky and Max were intending to call their son Freddie and I showed Pat the quilt I had made for him. Freddie was born on 8th October and my niece gave the gift to Becky and Max yesterday. Becky was thrilled with the quilt and especially happy that her Nannie had seen it before she died.

I’ve called the quilt “A Star is Born”. Little Freddie is a star who has come into our family at a time of sadness so he is a new focus for our family.

I have really depleted my stash of Wonky Stars so when I have some leftover scraps I’m turning them into new Wonky Stars.

I made these the other day:

Red Wonky star blocks for RSC

 I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of red scraps but whilst I was sorting out my fabric stash after Christmas I managed to find more than I remembered I had. Over the past year I’ve bought quite a bit of fabric, taking the opportunity to buy some larger pieces (2 or 3m) for backings in sales. As a result my storage drawers needed tidying up. All nicely sorted and labelled. Don’t think I’ve ever owned as much yardage!

I decided yesterday to cut pieces out for some Wonky Star blocks and I think I got rather carried away! I sewed a few up, pressed, trimmed and finished sewing the stars up today. There were ten.

I think this is about half the ones I cut out yesterday and I have now sewn the star points on all the rest of the blocks, ready to press and trim perhaps tomorrow. I love this block and I think they will make a nice addition to some I made last year. However, I did use some of the Wonky Stars last year so I don’t have a huge stash of them.

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC blog.