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.
