Baby Quilt

I got suckered in to making a baby quilt...and my first t-shirt quilt. Suckered isn't right...my friend Sarah asked and I said yes, mainly because I have no problem saying "no" to grown ups but I am absolutely incapable of denying an infant pretty much anything (within reason of course).

So I go over to her house and she literally hands me a bag of onesies to make a quilt out of.  What did I get myself into?  I have never made a t-shirt quilt, what thee proper hell am I going to do with these 30,000 onesies?  Make a quilt of course!  I took as many as were useable (meaning, the design wasn't a quarter inch from the seams etc), stabilized them and then cut them all as close to 7" as possible.


There were some REALLY cute ones in there. I love the T-Rex!



Since not all of them could be cut to 7", I had to make them bigger. These are the fabrics I chose to add to the too-small blocks.



Blocks done!



Quilt top, done!


The border fabric is better than anything I could have asked for. I love it when a plan comes together!

It's off at quilting now.  I showed Sarah, and she loved it! I'm really glad. After the last baby blanket I made for a friend, I stopped doing them because of how coldly it was received...I still never see it in pictures being used or anything, and so the fact that a quilt I made for their child has gone unappreciated hurt.  Luckily Sarah and her husband Casey love the quilt and I know their baby will too as he gets older.  Feels good to do good for a friend :-)

Strip Race Quilt

Whelp....this is the first and last quilt fad I test out. About a year ago, everyone and their dogs were doing these strip race quilts using 2.5" strips. One Jellyroll could get you a decent sized lap quilt.  It worked by sewing all the strips end to end in one long strip...fold in half, cut on fold, sew long seam, lather rinse repeat until the quilt is the right size. Allegedly this technique yields a quilt top (sans borders) in an hour.

So the finished products look neat, but not only is mine taking more than an hour (maybe people don't iron between seams?) but it is completely boring work...long, straight seam, iron, cut, long straight seam, iron, cut, long straight seam...I hate repetitive work like cops hate robbers.

The quilt itself though looks nice. I used a Bali Batiks strip set in the Spumoni colorway, which is comprised of teals, greens, rusts, blues, and golds. I might double it, despite the repetition, simply because this strip set looks awesome with my bedroom walls and curtains and our bed is a Queen size.  Luckily I have 2 strip packs!

Pictures up when I'm done...in significantly longer than one hour.