Zigzag (Continuation of New Technique)

All the blocks are on point in this quilt, so I learned how to piece a quilt with diagonal rows and make end caps for each row and the corners. It’s surprisingly hard to do, a real mental exercise. However, the resulting quilt is quite attractive. This is a continuation of what I learned from Sharon’s quilt. See Sharon’s Tulip Beds from March of this year.

I used fabric left from the unicorn quilt and some blue print fabric from my stash. See Catch Your Dreams from July of this year. The pattern came from the Modern Baby book; a book I used earlier for the fish and bubbles appliqué quilts. See Bubbles 1 and Bubbles 2 from August 2013. The book must be a good one that provides several quilt inspirations! The pattern from the book is called “Daddy’s Little Girl.” I left off the words and side piece. The back is a soft blue flannel printed with white dots from a fabric.com sale. The binding is the blue print fabric from my stash used for the quilt blocks.

This quilt will be donated to the guild. They used to give baby quilts to the neonatal unit at Lucille Packard’s Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The hospital no longer takes quilts from the guild. So now they are donated to San Mateo County to give to low income families who bring their infant to the clinic for the child’s first well baby check up. 

• 42 1/4" x 44 1/4"  Baby size
• Quilting: Quilted in a meandering loose stipple. Used light turquoise 100% polyester thread (Omni from Superior Threads-named "Light Turquoise"). Free form quilting. 4 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Blue flannel with printed white dots from fabric.com. 
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester Winline “Comfort Blend”
• Binding:  Blue print cotton from my inventory
• Pattern: “Daddy’s Little Girl” from Modern Baby quilt book
• Piecing by Patty
• Pinned into frame September 11, 2019. Quilting on long arm quilter September 13, 2019. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Mother and checked by Spencer.

Block for President’s Quilt

Every year the past president makes a quilt for the retiring president of the guild. Often the past president asks members to contribute a block. This is my contribution this year. Mother, who always has to say something very negative, thinks the red stripe overpowers the others. However, according to the past president the block will be cut down the middle of the longest diagonal stripe. So, I think the red will be less overpowering in the finished quilt. 

Repaired Baby Quilt (New Technique—Bind Round Corners)

My friend Noe asked me to repair the back and binding of her daughter’s baby quilt. Her daughter is in college and says she needs the quilt to get through her last year. The top is also in bad shape and I tried to convince Kiley to keep it in a zippered case to protect it rather than fix it. But she really wanted the back and binding repaired. So, I did. The back was never quilted to the front, so it was fairly easy to repair. I “quilted” with an iron, using Misty Fuse to bond the top to the new back. I used white flannel for the back which was in my stash, left from a baby quilt project many years ago. The white fabric for the bias binging was also in my stash. I had Misty Fuse and white thread, so nothing was purchased for the project. I rather doubt that the top will last one more washing, but maybe Kiley will be finished with college by then. Binding the round corners was not a perfect job. I need more practice.

• Size:  31" x 37"
• Quilting: Quilted by iron using Misty Fuse
• Backing: White flannel from my inventory
• Batting: None
• Pattern: Repair a quilt
• Binding:  White fabric from my inventory. Bias binding to go around rounded corners.
• This quilt is self-certified. QC by Patty.

Back and Binding Before Fix

New Back and Binding

Top Showing a Lot of Wear