My Second Quilt!

Shortly after Emma got pregnant, my brother and his wife told us that they were expecting their first baby too! Theirs is a girl, so again, I took it upon myself, to create a quilt.

Even tho this one LOOKS much more simple, I had so many more issues making it - even after I had spent $90 on a fancy walking foot. I had great help from my mother-in-law though :) she is just about a pro quilter!

I was told NO PINK, and my brother and his wife have put a green stripe around the baby's bedroom. After seeing a lilac and mint green quilt that a friend of mine made for her baby, I decided to make a green and purple quilt for my niece.

Front:

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Dont look too closely, there are wonky lines!

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Back:

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To get the inbetween lines straight, I measured and stuck masking tape lines down the whole quilt, sewed them in the same direction, un-pinned, then re-pinned the quilt, re-taped in the other direction, sewed, un-taped, and un-pinned!

My First Quilt

One of my best friends recently had a baby (well, 1.5 weeks ago!), so when I found out she was pregnant, I took it upon myself to make a quilt for their baby. They didn't know if they were having a boy or a girl, so stuck to bright, neutral colours. I found a really cool picture of a quilt online that I decided I wanted to copy:


Me, being the completely new, naiive quilter I am/was, thought "sure, I can do it", and didn't think otherwise, I didn't even have a walking foot, somehow, I managed to create a beautiful quilt!!!
I had a few left over patches (I made extra, just in case), so made a bumper pad too.

Here is the quilt:

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Close up of the patches:

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Showing the leopard print minky backing:

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(having trouble uploading pics to blogger again, so have had to link them!)