baby quilt – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Posy Quilt

Anne has strep throat. She spent Saturday night learning how to “aim for the bucket” and spent most of Sunday sleeping. We had 6 hour trip to the ER on Sunday night to find out she had a “throat infection” and did a second round of testing yesterday to find out she actually has strep throat. Bring on the antibiotics and send prayers that mommy doesn’t get it next! In the meantime, naps are long and mama has been quilting.

The quilt went together quickly and has some very special to the baby mama and me fabric on the back. I’ve had the fabric since we were teenagers and we both had dresses made from it. I’m pretty sure that, even though it will be years until baby understands how special it is, mommy will make sure she one day understands how precious it is.

Quilt Stats:

Designed, Pieced & Quilted by: Melissa Dunworth (Me)
Fabric: Posy by Aneela Hoey
Measures: 64″ x 54″

I will be mailing this quilt off soon. I just love knowing that it will not only be well loved but also well used!

Come back Friday to link up your April Finishes, I still have to finish mine. I have two more sides of binding to hand sew down. This month I am the Tortoise!

Work-In-Progress Wednesday

7 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, baby quilt, free motion quilting, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns, work in progress / By Melissa Dunworth

This week I have been busily working on my A Lovely Year of Finishes goal. Normally I don’t attempt to bust my goal out in the first week of the month but I volunteered to make 4 quilts to be raffled off at Anne’s preschool so my sewing time is about to shift back to charity mode pretty quickly.

I’m really happy with the quilting design that I came up with. In fact the only quilting I have left to do is in the gray sections and the borders. I’m hoping to bust it out today during preschool!

Have a Happy Wednesday and if you haven’t already, go link up your November goal!

A Quilt Top is Born

8 Comments / baby quilt, Charity, Do.Good Stitches, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Some times I just get motivated. Last week was one of those times where I was just motivated to finish.

I love the way a quilt top looks against a bright window. Always makes me think of stained glass. This quilt is an original design that sat for almost 3 full years in the UFO pile. I still need to name it and eventually write the pattern for it, but I am glad the top is finally done. I have a plan for the backing too, which is an added bonus! Oh and did I mention the entire project will be made from my stash?!?

Here is a regular front view. I already have the perfect Aurifil thread for quilting this beauty so I should meet my finish by Christmas goal.

The next week and a half will be dedicated to Charity projects. I have a quilt block pattern to write for Do Good Stitches, I am the quilter next month. I also have a bunch of sewing to do for my guild’s QuiltCon charity challenge quilt.

What is on your plate?

New Life

6 Comments / baby quilt, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Have you ever had one of those projects that you started for no reason and then fell out of love with it and stashed it into a drawer? I have lots of them, I can admit it. Today’s project got stashed in a drawer for lots of reasons, but it is coming back to life. Someone in my life is pregnant and having a baby girl and I thought this would be an adorable quilt for them. I designed it back in 2012 and I am changing the design slightly, more on that in a future post once I have made a few more blocks.

So here is a sewing confession for you, I love batiks! My great grandparents are from French Polynesia and I swear it is just in my blood. So here is my pink, yellow and purple spinner baby quilt. At least the start of it. The blocks are only 8.5″ by 8.5″ so I have quite a few more to make before it is a decent sized baby quilt.

Have a Happy Wednesday!

Blogger’s Quilt Festival

17 Comments / baby quilt, quilt along / By Melissa Dunworth

Hello everyone! This is my first time participating in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival hosted by Amy from Amy’s Creative Side and I’m really excited. This past month I made a baby quilt for Anne’s (my daughter) God Mother. She is having her second baby, a son, in December. I offered to make her a baby quilt and she asked if I could also make a crib skirt to go with it. That was a first for me but luckily I found a great tutorial that was easy to follow for that!

I wanted to do something special and original for her, so using the fabrics she picked out I designed an “I Spy” quilt of sorts. I call it “Eyes Crossed Spied”.

Here it is before quilting – we live in Western Washington and I was never able to get a shot of the quilt after I quilted outside in natural lighting.

I took a picture in my daughter’s room of the crib skirt and the quilt. Keep in mind my daughter is almost 3, so I don’t have a full crib anymore to show off how adorable the crib skirt truly looks, but you definitely get the idea!

I had so much fun designing and making this quilt. I am actually planning on offering it as Quilt-A-Long in the new year.

Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats

Finished quilt measures : 60″x60″

Special techniques used : Partially Finished Seams

Quilted by : Myself

Best Category : Baby Quilt