Baby Quilt

Here’s the finished baby quilt that I made for my girlfriend Lisa who is due at the end of this month, expecting a girl.  Her main color is purple and though you can’t see the back of this quilt, it’s a purple/white check on the back. I thought it came out cute with all the colors and these strip quilts are so quick and easy.   I believe this one took me about 5 days to complete over a period of 2-3 weeks. Now I’m on to making both the boys a quilt of their own…my goal is to get both of them done by Christmas and so we will see if I can do it.  I have started cutting out the denim squares for it and so at least I’ve “started”!

Maintaining my sanity…

I’m so excited to be making a baby quilt again!  I haven’t done any sewing or quilting since last summer when I made my girlfriend this baby quilt here.  Another girlfriend is pregnant and so a perfect excuse to get the scissors and sewing machine out and at the same time, maintain my sanity.  Crafting for me is a huge stress reliever and something I really neglect.  But, if you’ve been following along in my blog, you’ve read that adding more time in for crafting is a resolution for me this year.  I plan to make another “strip” rag quilt, which I love because they come together so quickly. So, with that said, I found a really fun fabric last week at JoAnn’s that I fell in love with and then found the coordinating fabrics on Friday.