Baby Quilts!

Here are a bunch of pictures of most of the baby quilts I have made. In the beginning I didn't take pictures of some of them (what was I thinking?) --so here are the ones I took pictures of. I have been keeping a webshots album with my quilt pictures, but since I started this blog I have quit updating it--so I figured I would try to get pictures of all my quilts in one place--here are the baby quilts. Wedding quilts, and other random quilts to follow in a future post.


The Cowboy Quilt
I made this quilt for Stacy--a lady I used to clean for. She was having her 3rd baby and told me that she had wanted her mom to make a baby quilt but her mom said no. So I volunteered to make her one. The theme for her nursery was cowboy...so this is what I came up with. I made up the pattern for the border, and used the cutest little scrapbook picture from My Minds Eye that I enlarged for the center. I learned a lot of things about making up my own patterns, and I became a big fan of applique!


I found the fringe at Joann's and all the outlining and details are done with a super tight zig-zag. (The rope took forever!) A lady at my work did most of the quilting (it was my first time using a long arm machine and I was a little scared of it--I thought I was really going to mess it up--so she did most of it for me).


The Giraffe Quilt
This quilt actually started out as "the bug quilt". I found these 3 cute little bug pictures that I wanted to put on a quilt, but they were kinda small, and I couldn't figure out how to make them look cute as appliques - so I used fabric paint and painted them on white fabric and made this quilt up around them...but I didn't love it. So I threw it in the closet and let it sit for a while. Then one day I decided that a giraffe would be the perfect thing to put in the middle of this quilt! So I yanked out the bugs and replaced them with a giraffe. I still have this quilt, since I made it for no one in particular. Below is a girly version of it that I helped one of my friends make.





Butterfly Flower Quilt
This is my first commissioned quilt ;) I made it for my grandma who wanted it as a Christmas present for my little brother and his wife who were having a little girl. (I think my cute grandma just wanted an excuse to give me money--I would have done it for free!)
It is very similar to this quilt I made for my daughter, I just used bolder colors and added butterflies to the border.




The Clock Quilt
This is an Amy Bradley design. I made this for my daughter.


I had WAY too much fun quilting this one. For the border squares, I printed numbers out in Word, cut them out, taped them to the fabric and used a ruler to go around them. Fun, fun!



Baby Alien Quilt
This is another Amy Bradley design...sort of...the original pattern makes a twin sized quilt (I have the twin sized top finished...waiting to be quilted...) but I decided to make it into a baby quilt...so I reduced the aliens on the copy machine, changed the layout, added the checkered border, and the rocket ship. It was for my nephew, Jason.





The Sheep Quilt
This is another quilt I made for my first baby...the pattern is Slide show by Atkinson designs. I wish you could see the sheep better...they are quilted into the big squares.

17 comments

  1. WOW! You are amazing! All of your quilts look beautiful!

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  2. Baby quilts are always tons of fun;) I love the time one, and the aliens;) Great fun!!
    Happy Quilting!!

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  3. I really like the butterfly/flowers around the border of the blue/purple quilt. It is lovely.

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  4. hello your proyects are beautiful baby quiltsthanks

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  5. I'm impressed and inspired! Beautiful designs beautifully done; clearly family heirlooms!

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  6. Wow you are very creative and i liked almost your all creation. Very nice!! You can buy fabric for your more quilting need with discount here: http://www.fabriccarolina.com

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  7. Wow, i have never made a quilt. You inspire me. I am going to attempt one. I let you know.

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  8. I was so happy to download your giraffe baby quilt pattern I am making this out of flannel for our 4th great grandchild. He is due in May. Thank you for this pattern - I love it. All of your work is lovely.

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  9. Love, love your Baby Quilts. Need to make two ...so need to get busy. Thanks..:)

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  10. I LOOKED FOR A PATTERN FOR "ZIG ZAG BABY QUILT" IN A BLOG POST 2012. IS THERE A PATTERN AVAILABLE WITH MEASUREMENTS?

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  11. Thank you for the beautiful pattern. I made one for a dear friend and it turned out so lovely!

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  12. I love the giraffe quilt. It is ideal for my God daughter's first much wanted baby girl when she arrives in 1 month as the nursery has a jungle theme.

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  13. I love the giraffe quilt,ideal for my God daughter's much wanted baby girl due to arrive on th e3 August, especially as the nursery has an African theme

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  14. I would like to buy the pattern for the cowboy quilt

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  15. I would love to purchease the pattern for the little boy cowboy!! Can you give me details or a link?

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  16. Gracias son unos diseños únicos, muy fino su trabajo.

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