Hey look, it’s my First. Ever. WIP Wednesday post! I so rarely take pictures of items that I’m working on, usually reserving the “big reveal” for the finished product. Over the long weekend I did a lot of sewing but didn’t fully finish anything, so I took pictures anyway.
This is a baby quilt pattern from Zakka Style: 24 Projects Stitched with Ease to Give, Use & Enjoy by Rashida Coleman-Hale. I know I’m way behind in this and everyone who wanted that book already has it and its old news, but I only just bought it for myself, so you’ll have to bear with me.
It took such a short time to whip out this quilt! It was complete and ready to photograph before the sun went down on Sunday, and I didn’t even get started until Sunday morning. I love, love, love the birdies on white, so I decided to build my fabrics around that one.
The quilt is 45″ x 60″ and I didn’t have any real linen on hand, so I used a linen-colored solid that I had lying around. Unfortunately, that means that my long strips came up a touch short. Oops! I had to piece some scraps onto the ends, but I alternated them in the quilt so they wouldn’t make a solid line and break up the quilt design in an odd way. You can hardly see it, I think!
I’m still deciding how I want to quilt this one. I always like the idea of somehow echoing the patchwork design in the quilting, but the reality is that an all over free-motion design is so much simpler.
The quilt is larger than I expected. 60″ in reality is way more than the fantasy in my head. I hope the baby that it is a gift for will love it for years to come!
I bought a bunch of that bird fabric as well! Most of it was used as backing for an apartment-warming quilt I made for a friend going through a divorce.
Sadly, I did not have to foresight to buy a bunch, just an FQ I think. My original intention was to make a couple of bibs out of it for a baby gift that never came to fruition – this is much better use, I think! Silly me for thinking I would make bids out of white material…