Coral & Navy Baby Quilt

 

Baby Quilt Donations

I made a bunch of quilts to donate to my local NICU. I think I've mentioned before that I volunteer there and I just love it so much. 

These quilts have sweet messages (from a panel I bought a long time ago). 

And these two used up some leftover 5" charm squares. 

I hope these quilts offer some love and comfort to some NICU families and their sweet little babies. 

Owls & Orange Baby Quilt

 

Pink & Black Baby Quilt

Pink Baby Quilt

This quilt was made using the pinks from the Sunwashed fabric line. I used the other colors for the baby boy quilt I made for my cousin's baby. 

The backing is fabric I found at IKEA probably at least 10 years ago!

Antique Quilts

Recently, my husband’s aunt gave us three quilts that were made by relatives in the 1930s and 1940s. I love these heirlooms and am happy to keep them for our kids and (hopefully!) future generations, too. 

Sunwashed Stars Baby Quilt

 

I made this quilt using the Sunwashed fabric line by Corey Yoder for the colorful pieces and a variety of low volume prints for the backgrounds. 

The pattern is inspired by this tutorial by Diary of a Quilter. Her pattern is for one big star, but I made this baby quilt with four smaller ones. My half square triangles and squares are 4.5" each. 

The backing is a cozy flannel gnome print I found at Joann's. 

This quilt is my 135th quilt! You can view them all on this page. 

Rosemary Cottage Quilty Stars

 I was super lucky and snagged one of Camille Roskelley's scrap bags of her new Rosemary Cottage fabric line. I made this pillow the day the fabric arrived and then started another Quilt Stars quilt (you may recognize this pattern... I use it to make my Little Women quilt last year). 

This is a fun pattern and a great use for small pieces of fabric. The points use 5.5" squares and the inside squares are only 2.5". 

Because I wanted my quilt to be a little scrappy, I added some fabric from the Lighthearted line. The colors from these two fabric lines are perfect together. 

The backing is called "Library of Rarities."

I really love these prints and can't wait until their October release. I will definitely be buying some yardage of the florals and those little swoons. There's also a white/pink swoons and a white/navy swoons that I neeeeeeed in my life. 

You can see my all of my quilts here. 

Pastel Bookshelf Quilt

 

I made this quilt in March, but I couldn't share it because it was a surprise for my sister. I finally gave it to her so here it is! I made another bookshelf quilt. I LOVE the one I made in 2020, but my sister wanted softer pastels. Bookshelf quilts are so much fun to make and such a fun way to use scraps. 

Some of the books are made with fabric from my kids' baby quilts, which I love so much. 

I don't use a pattern for my bookshelf quilts, I just sew each book to be 12 inches tall and varying widths. I like to use a mix of wide and narrow books in a variety of colors. This is a quilt that having a design wall is super helpful so I can see the color distribution as I make the books (I don't have a fancy design wall, I just hang a piece of batting on the wall). I do try and use wider books for the left and right ends of each shelf, so once I sew the rows together I can trim them to be equal widths. 

You can see my rainbow bookshelf quilt here and all of my quilts here. 

Strawberry Season

 

Since I was a little girl, I have looooooved strawberries. We now live in Central California in a farming community and the fresh strawberries here are the best I've ever had. These giant strawberry blocks were fun to make, especially during strawberry season. 

I used Lori Holt's Farm Girl Vintage book, although I made the blocks much bigger. I used 4.5" squares and half-square triangles instead of the 2.5" squares in the book. 

You can view all of my finished quilts on this page. Thanks for looking!