It has been a bit crazy around here, we welcomed our nephew Loïc into the world in March, which meant I was already behind on making a baby gift. Because, you know, that's how I do things.
I decided since my sister in law (and all of her sisters) are so fabulous at knitting and crocheting that I would branch out from my usual knitted baby gift wear and try something different. So one day while cruising pinterest (damn pinterest and all the wonderful things posted on there), I saw this gorgeous baby quilt.
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| Image credit: http://www.pinknewbornservices.com sadly I couldn't not find the original image source. |
And of course my brain thought "well that looks easy enough", even though a)there was no online tutorial and b) I had never, ever quilted in my life. In my head it was a bunch of straight lines and some hearts. Easy.
I had some vintage fabric hanging around from my grandma's house that I decided would look great, as well as some grey quilting cotton from a previous school project. So all I needed was some backing fabric, batt, binding and some more quilting fabric for a bit more variety. I could do this in a weekend or two, max.
Wrong.
It took me almost 3 months to finish this quilt, which (even though it isn't the prettiest or most refined quilt around) I am quite proud of it. I had no idea how hard it is to sew a heart, but I caught on eventually. The last three hearts look really nice.
I probably should have ironed the quilt before photographing it, but that's asking a bit much don't you think?
I created my own binding from the same material as the backing, which was really easy thanks to a tutorial from Cluck Cluck Sew.
I had a lot of fun with this quilt, my next goal will be a hand stitched quilt since I can only imagine that that would be infinitesimally more difficult, complicated and time consuming. But that's what 8 months of winter weather is for!
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