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I wrote this blog in July of 2017 and apparently never published it. I just found it in the "Drafts" section of my dashboard. Enjoy!
Nora Kate was born a few weeks ago and made our friends grandparents - again. Her big brother (Grampa's Little Genius) is two years old, so he was probably ready for a baby sister. And, naturally, she needs a quilt.
I had a "Just A Speck" layer cake by Moda that I thought would be fun to work with. I used all the squares with white dots to make a disappearing four-patch. The Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorial was all the pattern I needed!
I started by cutting the 10" squares into 4 pieces each and making four-patches with Kona white.
Once I cut up each of the blocks .....
..... and put them back together in a different arrangement they looked like this.
Nothing in my stash worked for a border, so I had to make a trip to my Local Quilt Shop (poor me!) I found a great dotted print in a dark pink.
At least I thought it was dark pink until I got it home in a different light. Now I'm thinking it might be red.
Either way, it works.
Last but not least, some clip art and hand embroidery, and a label is made!
For once I actually finished a baby quilt way ahead of time, and it's a good thing I did since I hadn't planned on a broken arm this year. I originally blogged about the quilt in this post. We knew our friends were becoming grand-parents in July, and I wanted to be ready.
I made the quilt .....
..... and designed the back using the remaining fabric.
When we learned that "Baby" was to be a boy, I had my friend Penny create a label for the back. Since Grampa is an engineer and the fabrics have letters, numbers, and airplanes, I named it "Grampa's Little Genius."
Well, the Little Genius is a little cutie pie! Isn't he adorable? Can you tell he loves his quilt? Yah, I can too.
