Topic: Quilting
Three baby quilts in a row? What's up with that?
Our church donates to a local pregnancy clinic (Hope 360) and our quilt group that meets at the church makes donation quilts for them to give the new babies.
We have made Passages quilts for the local hospital for several years but Hope 360 is only a couple years old. Other ladies in our group have already donated several baby quilts but I had never done so. I decided to make some and, since I didn't have other projects waiting, I quickly finished off three of them.
The quilt today is from a tutorial by the Missouri Star Quilt Company. They called it 'Dizzy Daisies'.
In the tutorial, they used a line of fabric that was quite subdued in coloring. I wanted to go bold and bright. I chose, from my stash, 5 bright pinks, 4 bright oranges, bright yellow, bright green, bright turquoise and crisp white.
The petals of the flowers start out as 5-inch squares and are snowballed on three sides - two white and a yellow - using 2 1/2 inch squares. Then these are joined together with the yellows together to make the flower.
The blocks were joined with 2 1/2 inch white sashing with green cornerstones. Then the turquoise border was added - also 2 1/2 inches wide.
I quilted the orange flowers like daisies (all of the flowers got spiral centers):
The pink flowers got rose-type petals:
The vertical sashing was quilted first with vines and leaves. Then the horizontal sashing got rows of tiny flowers:
The turquoise border has dragonflies printed on it so I just quilted with loop-the-loops down the length.
The binding matches the border and the backing is green flannel.
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