Baby Craze

I started a new quilt this week for a family friend who is expecting a baby boy in October. I hope to finish it before the shower so I can give it as a shower gift. So far, this is an extremely easy and fun quilt to work on. It's so easy, I feel like I'm "cheating".

The design is called Baby Craze by Terry Starke. It was in the Summer 2008 Fon's & Porter's Easy Quilts magazine. I've taken a few liberties with the block designs, but it's basically the same. So far I don't have enough variety going on to photograph well, but this is a start.

Each seam of the blocks will get stitched over with a decorative stitch to give it the appearance of having been sewn together as patches.

It is FINISHED!

Well, the top anyway...but that's the hard part with this one. In some miraculous freak of quilting luck, by the time I got both borders on, this wildly misalligned quilt top with virtually no two blocks the same size ended up folding up completely squared. Go figure.

Mystic Ribbons Continues

I got the inner border on the Mystic Ribbons quilt today. What an accomplishment! This quilt has been a real lesson in making things work whether to fit or not. Hopefully the outer border will be a lot easier now that I at least have four even edges to work with now...even if it's not square.