Years ago I picked up a little how-to-quilt book at Walmart and made my first quilt. After that full-sized one, I made one baby quilt. And then I guess I got busy and didn’t make time for it and the next thing I knew, it was nearly thirty years later and I decided I’d like to re-learn to quilt.
I decided my reintroduction to quilting would be making a watch-me-grow baby quilt for my youngest granddaughter. When baby Journey arrived a few weeks ahead of schedule, I had to speed things up to get it done!
For Journey’s quilt, I used a printed panel by Robert Kaufmann that has the look of appliqué. I was drawn to this design because their nursery theme for little Journey is butterflies. It’s even more perfect because her big sis called her “my baby princess.” Cuteness. Overload.
I quilted the entire thing by hand, and attached pre-made binding by hand. I marathon-quilted for 3 days after Journey was born so I could get it delivered by her one week birthday.
My hand was tired, y’all.
It’s not perfect but I’m tickled with how it came out and it was great practice for hand-quilting.
I’m gave my stitching fingers a few weeks off before starting another quilting project I already had planned.
If you quilt or want to pretend you do, you might enjoy these sweet fictional novels written around the theme. They helped fuel my newly rekindled interest. I’ve read the first two in the Cobbled Court Quilts series and just discovered there are 3 more in the series. There’s also the Elm Creek Quilts series, which has twenty-one books, though I’ve only read one so far.
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