Well, yet again I have inadvertently taken a 3 month hiatus from blogging. However, I have worked on a few projects this summer. First up to show you is my son's baby quilt....
Last summer I started working on a quilt for my then yet-to-be-born baby boy. I was pretty sure I wanted to work around a navy / aqua / green color scheme. I had pinned a few quilts with similar color schemes on Pinterest. Somehow I came across the striped fabric from the Seaside fabric line by October Afternoon. It was exactly the colors I had in mind, so I purchased a yard of it and slowly collected fabrics that coordinated.
I finished the first (test) block for Easton’s quilt on
August 26th, 2013. I was
really loving the way it looked; the colors, the fabrics, everything. So, I made 47 more blocks. Chain-piecing made quick work of
it and I had all the blocks done about a week before Easton was born. And I could have had the quilt top together
before he was born, if it hadn’t been for one little glitch….
When I laid out all the blocks as I had originally planned,
the values were not quite right. I wasn’t getting the secondary pattern I
had hoped for. My goal had been Sunshine & Shadows (pictured on the left), but even the Barn Raising layout (pictured on the right) didn't look right.
As I was mulling over my options (over-analyzing as my family would
say), I ended up going into labor & having Easton. So the blocks sat. Finally this past April, I couldn’t look at the poor
blocks any longer. I was adamant that they get sewn into a quilt top…. But I still couldn’t decide on a layout. I toyed with sashing them, but ultimately
decided that was more work than I wanted to put into it and I didn’t think it
would look any better.
Finally, I decided to go with this zig zag layout, which is officially called Fields and Furrows, and is quite fitting since we are a farm family. Plus, it was the only layout that looked half decent.
This quilt top was sent to Abby Latimer for quilting.
She suggested the "Modern Leaves" pantograph & it turned out
perfect. It complements both the fabrics & the zig zag layout.
I decided to bind the quilt with the
same green fabric that I used for the backing since I thought the top
could use a little more green to balance it out. (And I had plenty of green fabric left over.)
Easton turns 1 on September 23rd. I thought Tensley's first year went fast, but Easton's first year went even faster!
Quilt
Stats:
Fabric:
Fabric:
Quilt top - compilation of fabrics based on navy / aqua / green color scheme
Backing - green fabric
Backing - green fabric
Binding - same green fabric as backing
Pattern: log cabin blocks in the Fields and Furrows layout
Dimensions: 48” x 64”
Started quilt top: August 22nd, 2013
Finished quilt top: April 23rd, 2014
Quilted: by Abby Latimer of Latimer Lane Quilting using the “Modern Leaves” pantograph pattern
Made for: Easton Cronin
Pattern: log cabin blocks in the Fields and Furrows layout
Dimensions: 48” x 64”
Started quilt top: August 22nd, 2013
Finished quilt top: April 23rd, 2014
Quilted: by Abby Latimer of Latimer Lane Quilting using the “Modern Leaves” pantograph pattern
Made for: Easton Cronin
Thanks for reading! I have 2 more baby quilts to share, so hopefully I will get those blogged soon!
