Baby Girl Quilt

I interrupted my art quilt "flower gardening" yesterday to quilt a lovely baby quilt for my friend Carolyn. It is one of my favorite patterns, Yellow Brick Road. The fabrics are soft pinks, creams, tans, and browns. It seems many new moms are choosing more non-traditional palettes for little girl's nurseries these days.

Since Yellow Brick Road is such a linear design, I like to soften it with curvy quilting, and for a baby girl, I went all out with free-motion feathers, flowers, curls, and a little heart here and there.

These fabrics all have a lovely, silky "hand" or feel. They are from our local quilt shop, Quilts Like Crazy. I can't tell you how lovely they were to quilt, especially after dealing with some of the tough, non-traditional fabrics in the Blazing Stars quilt project I recently finished.

Today is going to be so windy. We have turned over the rocking chairs on the front porch and already retrieved the flag that flew off our house and was working its way toward the woods. I hope the power does not go off!

Another Quilt for a Baby Girl

Yesterday I quilted this pretty quilt for a new baby girl. My friend Carolyn asked about the colors for the baby's room, and was directed to a retail store that carried the furnishings she picked out. When Carolyn went to the store, she was given a wallpaper border sample to help choose colors and designs. When she brought me the quilt, she gave me the sample to use as quilting inspiration if it would help. Didn't she do a great job picking out fabrics to match the wallpaper? Lots of polka dots and flowers.
Carolyn added some machine-embroidered motifs to some of the fabric blocks.

Here is the whole quilt laid out on my kitchen table.

I was able to incorporate the flower and leaf designs into my free-motion quilting.

I did not want to sew through her embroidery, because it was very thick- must have stabilizer behind the stitching. So I just went around.

The quilting shows up well on the woven pink-and-white stripe back. I used a light pink Signature cotton thread, and Warm and Natural cotton batting.

Next up: one of the charity quilts for Quilts on Wheels that Carolyn made at our sew-in day in July. I think hers has snowmen! Hope they don't melt, since it will be in the nineties again today.