Finished Cartwheel Quilt

This one is all finished and has been hand delivered to the expectant parents who LOVE it! Hooray!

Thanks to Park Ranger Fiance for modeling it for me the other day to take pictures!

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Pattern: Cartwheels by Freshly Pieced

Fabrics: White Kona and various fat quarters/half yards from my stash (will try to update this later!)

Backing: buttery yellow flannel from Joann
Quilting: Tied with fluffy white yarn

Techniques: Paper piecing, hand binding

Size: 44" x 58" 

Made for: Baby Girl H, due in late spring!

Linking up with Finish it Up Friday now and will link up this as my March finish for the Lovely Year of Finishes!

In Process

After a busy last week and a half between work and wedding planning (we have a date!!) I finally got the motivation to finish up my Cartwheels baby quilt.

It also helps that Park Ranger Fiance is going to see the parents of the "new person" next weekend.

I bought some butter yellow snuggly flannel for the backing and binding. I love flannel backed quilts!

For some reason, I had a lot of trouble with the top scootching all over while I was machine stitching the binding on. Seam ripping binding off is NOT a fun process!

Here is the little ray of sunshine:

Happy weekend to you!

March Lovely Finishes Goal

It's March already?!?

My Lovely Year of Finishes goal for March is to finish my Cartwheels baby quilt.

The baby girl that this quilt is for is due in May, so I need to back, quilt (or tie) and bind this little beauty.

Check out what everyone else is working on at Sew Bittersweet and Fiber of All Sorts!

 

Cartwheels -- All Together

I managed to get my paws on three yards of white Kona (thank you JoAnns!) and finished sashing together the quilt top tonight.

Here's the little beauty:

I haven't decided yet if I want to back this one with flannel or not, but this one is decently sized already without any borders. I love these fabrics together and might have to keep them together to make something for myself now!

Have a wonderful weekend, all!

Cartwheels in Rows

Sunday, I finished all of my cartwheel blocks and started sashing the blocks together. Of course, I ran out of my white Kona and can't go any further with this one. But it is coming together really well!

Now to figure out where to order some white Kona from!

Check out what everyone else has been up to at Plum and June, Fabric Tuesday, and Sew Cute Tuesday

More Cartwheels

Happy Sunday everyone!

I made two more cartwheel blocks during the week and two yesterday, which means I have 8 of 12 done!

Hopefully will be able to get the rest of these done this week!

Doing Cartwheels

When Lee of Freshly Pieced debuted her Cartwheels pattern, I was lucky enough to win one of the patterns!

I decided to use this pattern for one of the baby quilts I am planning to make this spring and I found out that one of the babies is going to be a girl so I went to work picking colors.

I've been hoarding these fabrics for along time, so I figured a cute baby deserves some REALLY CUTE fabrics. I picked different 12 fabrics for the 12 blocks and then there should be enough of the green diagonal stripe for the binding.

I printed off a pile of the paper pieced templates and finished four of the blocks today:

Using the directional stripe prints made some really cute blocks, in my opinion! It did take a little bit of extra thinking to make the individual units have the fabric going in the same direction.

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