{if it's a boy...}

there is a quilt ready.  :)

i just finished the "official" if-it's-a-boy quilt...

lots of aqua + green + grey.  yum.

but honestly i love the color scheme so much that if it's a girl, she's getting it too!

there is probably a much easier way to go about making a quilt like this, but this is the way my brain figured it out...

i started by cutting 6x6 inch blocks of a BIG stack of fabrics.  then i cut each in half diagonally.  i arranged how i liked then sewed together square blocks, so that i was sewing the diagonal back together between two triangle "halfs" - to make a block again.  after sewing the block together, press seam in one direction, then trim each block down to 5x5 inches.  Assemble quilt top and quilt quilt-lines as you like.

i tried so so SO hard not to buy anything new for this quilt - bc really my stash of fabric is PLENTY....

(...& bc i know someone will ask - fabrics are a HUGE range from my collection, lots of flea market fancy, some wee play pez monotone prints, japanese import elephants, katie jump rope, amy butler prints, kona solids, some liberty of london that i've been hoarding, and more!)

the backing was pieced with big chunks that i had in my stash...

...and i pretty much succeeded in not buying anything until i ran out of the aqua thread that i was using to quilt the quilt-lines with.  and not wanting to randomly change thread colors mid-quilt, i broke down and bought another spool ;) - still i consider it a success at making something with what i had ;)

:)

ps - the binding is a Kona shade of aqua that i had extra from bc i'm using it throughout the nursery...

and just for the record - i am still thinking that this baby is a boy!

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pps - been cleaning out my closet of 1/2 finished craft projects and added a BUNCH TO MY ETSY STORE - check it out here - lots of CUTE QUILTED PATCHWORK BIBS TOO!!!  (the link is now in my sidebar too!)

:)

Comments

[alicia.king]

i love these colors! this turned out great!