CuteBots Baby Quilt

 As soon as I found out that my cousin was having a baby boy, I knew the quilt had to be made with Timeless Treasures CuteBots fabric by Rashida Coleman Hale.  I went back and forth on creating my own pattern for the design but ended up using the Ordered Chaos quilt by Carolina Patchworks.  This is such a great pattern to feature a print and it pieces very quickly (after the cutting!).

The last time I used this quilt pattern I appliquéd a large design on it and loved how it turned out.  I feel that every baby quilt has to incorporate the name so I picked one of the cutest CuteBots and added the name underneath.

I quilted the quilt on my home machine with a block type meander.  I divided it up into quadrants to make the quilt easier to manage.  I love the modern feel of the quilting and to me it matched the robot theme, so it worked perfectly.

Every time I make a baby quilt I worry about the durability of the binding.  Let's face it baby quilts will get dirty often, which leads to lots of washing!  I decided to do a decorative stitch on the binding to stitch it out down.

I wanted to use the variegated thread in the quilting but didn't want to distract from the robots, so I was able to use in the binding.  I wish I could say this was my idea but I saw this done at a quilt at BERNINA University last year and loved the look of it.  It is also a nice way to machine stitch binding without have to worry about the straight stitch catching the seem on both sides.

You can tell that this is a special quilt because I used my Katie Jump Rope fabric on the back.  You cannot buy that anymore!!  To set this stitch up you choose a nice decorative stitch that will cover the binding nicely.

I used stitch #758 on my 830.  This was the same as the sample I had seen.  It works great because it doesn't have a lot of stitching in straight lines.  I think it turned out great and will hopefully last quite a bit longer than my hand stitching; not to mention, much, much quicker!

The baby shower is this weekend.  I hope she likes it.  I want to create a few smaller quilts for him before he is born but this is all I will get done for the shower.  Until next time!

Wonderland

A family friend of mine is getting married next month.  Their entire wedding is an Alice in Wonderland theme.  I saw this fabric and found it suited the cause perfectly.

I am trying to do some improvisational pieceing and it is making me nuts.  I can't decide what I want where and I spend more time staring at the blocks than doing much of anything else.  I started with the panel and added a small stripe of black and white to frame them off.  From there, I am just winging it.

 

So, while I spend time staring at my design wall, auditioning fabric after fabric, I started embroidering some fabric to use for a quilt that I cannot wait to make! 

But until I can play with this, I gotta finish Alice.

This is the intro...

My name is Andrea and I sew and quilt.  I have finally taken the plunge and started a blog; if anything to archive the projects that I make. 

The above photo is my current work in progress that is supposed to be done by March 21.  With my busy work schedule this month it hasn't been anything more than this for the last two weeks.  I think I may be in trouble... You can always extend birthday presents after all, right?