Quilt for Baby

Happy Black Friday!! I hope everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends giving Thanks yesterday! Personally I am so thankful for little Baby. This time last year I was pregnant and working on getting her nursery together. One project I never completed, so here I am a year later getting it done!

Remember my 'Over the Moon' post? I know, its been awhile, a yrar to be exact lol. After making all those bedsheets for Baby I was left with a bunch of 8x8 squares. Seemed a shame to waste them, so I decided to sew them all together and make a quilt for Baby.

I'll tell you right now I'm not much of a quilter, never really got into it. So this seems like a good place to start I guess.

Just to refresh your memory, I made four sheets by cutting an 8x8 inch square out of every corner. Plus the first changing pad sheet (that was a bit too small) giving me twenty 8x8 squares.

I started by laying them out five across and sewing them together.

Then I realized I need five rows of four across not the other way around. Ahh so me and my seam ripper got to work taking things apart and putting them back together.

I sewed these with a 5/8 seam allowance because I left the selvedge on most of them. If I was cutting these for a quilt I'd remove the selvedge, but these are just scraps I'm reperposing. And cutting off the selvedge would mess up my perfect squares, so I just went with a wider seam allowance.

Ok, now I have five rows of four 8x8 squares sewn at a 5/8 seam allowance.

I then pressed all my seams open flat.

Next I lined up my seams and sewed my five rows together. Again pressing all my seams open flat.

I'm really happy with how my pattern turned out!

I laid my quilt out on some batting and cut a piece to fit.

I repeated the process with this navy fabric I chose for the backing.

Okay so I know some of you are like really good quilters and you're cringing at my sloppy quilt making. Again I remind you I am not a quilter, I'm a rockstar in tailoring and custom apparel, quilting not so much.

I sandwiched all my layers together, sewed around the edge leaving a small opening in the bottom to turn. After clipping my corners I realized I'd sewn the batting on the outside on accident!! So I pulled out my seam ripper and tried again.

The second go around I did things correctly, allowing me to use a hand stitch to close up the opening I used to turn it.

With the backing secured its time to quilt all three layers together.

I know its currently in fashion to do machine quilting which was my original plan. I had the walking foot on the machine, then after talking to my mom about it, I changed my mind. My mom doesn't machine quilt she does it the old fashioned way, by hand. I decided I would do it by hand too.

I looked up some stitches, and settled on the star. I won't walk you through it because I found this neat little tutorial thst is way better than anything I could come up with. I used it to teach myself. I have it linked here for those interested.

https://www.broadclothstudio.com/blog/star-stitch

It took me awhile to get the hang of it. The first few turned out kinda wonky.

Eventually I figured it out.

And there you have it, little Baby's quilt all done. It may not be perfect, it is my first quilt after all. First quilt for my first Baby.

Thank you so much for following along! See you next week!