I have been in a major "sort it, use it, organize it, clear it out" mood with my sewing room and quilting supplies. Before we moved, I did not get to to the reorganization and purge that I envisioned -- because we moved up our moving date, everything went from the shelves and bins straight to the moving boxes and then back on the shelves.
So imagine my surprise when I was looking for something else and I found this baby quilt top at the bottom of a pile of projects:
I had to go back three and a half years to find when I had made this quilt top. This was two apartments ago! I made this quilt top using the Jelly Roll Jam 2 pattern from the Fat Quarter shop using scrappy fat quarters left over from other baby quilt projects and I just made as many blocks as I could make with the scraps that I had.
This project somehow has escaped being placed on my running WIP list; I decided that instead of adding it to the list "officially" I would do my best to finish it up in October.
I found a piece of fabric big enough to use for backing left over from my Summer on the Coast quilt. I guess that I had really over-estimated how much backing and binding fabric I needed!
I didn't find light brown thread in my stash that I liked (the ones I have are too yellow/too gold), so I just used white thread to quilt this one instead. I decided to use a red solid fat quarter to make bias binding for this quilt.
Zippidee do dah -- a finished baby quilt!
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Quilt Stats:
Name: Little Lady Quilt
Pattern: Jelly Roll Jam 2 from Fat Quarter shop
Fabrics: fat quarter bundle of baby girl fabrics
Techniques: strip piecing, free motion quilting
Quilting: Free motion meanders
Size: 40" x 36"
Batting: scrap batting
Started: February 2016 (yikes!)
Finished: October 2019
Future: Baby quilt/TBD
This is a sweet little crib quilt, very girly.
ReplyDeleteWhat a happy discovery and lovely finish! I wouldn't be able to forget about as-yet-unfinished pieced tops as you did. Those WIPs are a heavy burden that I carry everywhere -- ha!
ReplyDeleteYeah for completions no matter how old the UFO.
ReplyDeleteIt's a very happy quilt and hooray for finding it and getting it finished. :)
ReplyDeleteLook at that! You found a finished baby quilt in your stash. OK, it needed a FEW more minutes of work, but it was practically done. And super cute, to boot :)
ReplyDeleteI really like this baby quilt. I wouldn't have thought a red binding would work so well but it's perfect! A great finish and a UFO finished. A double win!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a great find and finish!
ReplyDeleteAllison, you did a great job finishing your sweet quilt.
ReplyDeleteA cute baby quilt. I love the red binding.
ReplyDeleteVery cute. It's so easy to loose things when moving. What a fun bonus and easy finish.
ReplyDeleteThe red. I ding works well. Aren't you lucky to find this one for a quick finish
ReplyDeleteThis is sweet! And it's great you were able to finish it so quickly--once you found it again, that is!
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