re•engineered: "bricks" baby quilt

I have a lot of friends & family having babies in the near future! My sister-in-law, Leah, is due with a baby girl at the beginning of December. She asked me to make a quilt for her baby, which was a no-brainer since I was already planning on it! She said to shoot for a pink / aqua color scheme & I had another jelly roll of Hello Luscious by Basic Grey, so I made 2 quilts out of that fabric line back to back. I worried I might get sick of the fabrics, but I definitely did not! It's too bad I don't have a 3rd jelly roll of it to make a quilt for me! (haha)

I decided to go with a "brick" layout for this version. I thought the larger pieces of fabric would really show off this line. Again, this was such a easy and fun quilt to make. And again, the "hardest" part was just making sure the fabrics were dispersed evenly.

I had seen a number of quilts on Pinterest and Instagram with the "brick" pattern and they were all straight line quilted. So I decided to try it on this quilt. I thought the straight lines would really accentuate the brick pattern. I think it turned out fairly good for only my 3rd time quilting anything!

The quilt measured 54" x 56" before washing and shrunk to 50" x 52" after washing & drying. In hindsight, I wish I had made this quilt a little less wide and a little bit longer because I don't particularly care for square quilts. I'm not sure how I miscalculated the size of the quilt because I had thought it would come out closer to 48" x 56". Oh well.

For the backing fabric, I had this beige fabric in my stash and I thought it complemented the cream and beige colors in the quilt top. It wasn't quite enough fabric though, so I pulled 3 fat quarters from my stash and pieced them together, along with the beige fabric, to make the back. I like that it is a pieced back without being too fussy / busy.

For the binding, I used the beige fabric left over from the backing. I wanted something neutral and calm and I really like it. I forgot to get a decent picture of the binding. I ended up being just about 3 inches short on the binding, so I pieced in a little scrap of pink fabric. You barely notice it from the front of the quilt. From the back, it is kind of a fun, unexpected pop of color. I really like it.

Quilt Stats:
Fabric:
Quilt top - Hello Luscious by Basic Grey
Backing & binding - beige solid (Moda) and 3 miscellaneous fat quarters pulled from stash