Central Park Squares Baby Quilt

There's a new baby in my world...

one of my friends has waited for a very long time

for the safe arrival of little Samuel.

I just had to make a quilt for this special little boy!

{ALL babies are very special, but Samuel is truly a miracle.}

Samuel's nursery is filled with animals,

so I started with an animal print

from Kate Spain's Central Park line for Moda.

I found most of these coordinating fabrics at Rose Room Quilts.

I had recently stocked up on polka dots,

and they were fun to use in this quilt.

I love the Ta Dots in Sea...

 the small cream dot in orange from Riley Blake...

and the solid olive green.

My favorite print, though,

was the Random Pencil Check in Linen,
which I used instead of a plain background solid.

I labored {hee hee} over what pattern or design to use,

and in the end, I decided to use colorful squares,

set off by the neutral pencil-check blocks.

Before I knew it, I was ready for the quilting step.

I kept the quilting very simple, 
just stitching 1/4" on each side of the seams.

{I wanted to give this quilt to baby Samuel before he is ready for kindergarten.}

This quilting looks so cool on the back, too!

For the binding,

I chose those happy orange polka dots.

I finished the binding by hand-stitching,

and that is a process I really enjoy.

{Do you like that part, too?}

So there we have it...

just 5 different fabrics, made into a finished quilt, 

ready for a bundle of joy!

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Have A Holly Jolly Tree Skirt!

It's the end of November,

and I no longer feel even the least bit funny about

stitching up something Christmas-y every month!

This month I finished a bigger project...

the Holly Jolly Tree Skirt!

I used the awesome pattern by A Bright Corner on Etsy.

Here's Andy's pattern cover,

featuring a Christmas tree and everything.

{My tree is NOT up yet.}

For my version,

I used fabrics from Kate Spain's In From The Cold collection.

I chose 6 prints for the front of the tree skirt.

{Little Ginger photo-bombed me, under the table.}

At the end of the day,

I had my tree skirt top all pieced together.

Here it is, spray-basted and ready for quilting.

After another day,

I had the tree skirt all quilted,

and the binding was even finished.

On the back, and for the binding,

I used a red and white snowflake print

from the same fabric line.

{I'm so glad I have some yardage left over to make something for myself.}

I really love that cookie print,

reminding me of family cookies from Christmases past.

And these cocoa cups look like the ones my great-grandma

used in her restaurant...in my mind's eye, anyway.

{OK...her cups were solid white with green stripes,

but they were the same shape as these cups.}

The little label on the back will remind Val that I made this,

just for her.

It was easier than I expected to attach the binding

to all of the angles of the giant hexagon.

I chose to make ties from the binding fabric,

but you could use ribbon, too, as the pattern suggested.

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Stop by soon for a wrap-up of my

Christmas projects from 2013.

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