I have a friend who’s baby was due in January, so of course I took my time. Surprise, surprise he showed up 6 weeks early and I hadn’t done more than choose some fabrics.
Yellows, blues, oranges, at least I started gathering the fabric but hadn’t really thought about a design.
With my library card I can download a few quilt and knitting magazines through Zinio. It’s fun to look through them. Although I’ll be honest, I’m something of a snob, inspiration is one thing, but I can find ‘better’ ideas for a quilt. Guess what, it’s what you do with the quilt that makes it special – not the inspiration source.
I saw this quilt Alpha Bits and Pieces, and thought perfect, I wasn’t interested in the alphabet border, but the fun scrappy look would be perfect for a baby boy.
It really pays to take pictures as I go along, not just for the blog. There is something about a picture that highlights ‘issues’ that I might ignore otherwise. I like scrappy, but this lacked any cohesiveness. So I eliminated some of these prints and narrowed down my fabric choices.
It wasn’t just the colors, clearly florals weren’t going to work here, this was going to be a more graphic quilt.
Here are all the fabrics, enough contrast to make some blocks pop. I am using the Inspiration quilt as a guide line, not as a perfect template.
Here is the finished top. Larger than a baby quilt, so Noah will be able to enjoy this for many years. I’m pleased with how the colors and intensity are spread across the quilt in a pleasing manner. Now on to the quilting. He might just get this around his projected birthday.