Finished Baby Quilt for Madison

This has actually been finished for a few days, but we've been traveling and celebrating and all that good Christmas-y stuff, so I'm finally getting a chance to post this finish!

Since I was in a major hurry to get this out (this sweet babe was born at the beginning of November!) I only have a front and back picture to show this time around.

I quilted this one with meandering swirls and bound it with the leftover backing fabric!

Merry Christmas from us to you and yours! 

Quilt for Baby Boo -- Basted!

The last time I posted about this quilt it looked like this:

I decided to change up my plan entirely and turn it into an on-point rail fence. I used the backing fabric for the setting triangles and then decided that it was too small, so I used the last half yard of the yellow fabric as a 3 inch border.

(Clara tried to "help".)

Much better with a border! I'm planning to use the same fabric from the setting triangles for the binding too.

And now it is all pin basted and ready to quilt! I am planning to try to do some simple custom quilting on it. I am planning to do squiggles in the rail fence block, loops in the setting triangles, and loops in the border as well.

Linking up to Fabric Tuesday and Linky Tuesday!

August ALYoF Goal -- Bunny Quilt

I find it a little bit funny that I have yet to make a quilt with bunnies and this month I will be doing just that!

My college roommate is having a baby girl this fall and I am working on designing a pattern for a baby bunny quilt.

These are the fabrics that I pulled:

Long time visitors here at LBQ might recognize these as most of the same fabrics that I used in the Cartwheel Baby Quilt (from the pattern by Lee at Freshly Pieced) that I made in Spring 2013. I added in the yellow small medallion print and the tonal green flourish print for this time around.

My plan is to alternate between large rail fence blocks and patchy bunny blocks on solid white background (which I need to go buy!). I've just finished making all of the 10.5" rail fence blocks from 2.5" strips cut from all of my prints.

(Forgive me for the extension cord that I use when I move my sewing table in front of the TV for Netflix-sewing afternoons!)

My plan is to make checkerboard sections out of all of the scraps and then cut bunny shapes from that and then machine applique it to the background fabric. Has anyone tried appliquing patchwork like this before?

Linking up with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and at ALYoF!