Blue & green zigzag baby quilt
I haven’t been naming my quilts beyond descriptive terms (Tetris Quilt, Mother’s Day Quilt, Chickens, etc), maybe it’s time I start giving them names like actual pieces of art. I finished the baby quilt for a coworker and I love it. I know everybody always says they love whichever quilt they just completed, and it’s true. I actually quilted this one, too, rather than tying it, doing stitch-in-the-ditch along the edges of the zigzag stripes. It went really well. The backing is a soft dinosaur print flannel. Maybe next time I’ll even add a real binding!
If I could do something differently I wouldn’t add the darkest blue stripe. My original plan was about 6 stripes longer and had another dark blue one, and when I realized the proportions would be all skewed unless I made it a lot wider also, I ended up with just the one dark stripe. The colors in the picture aren’t exactly true-to-life, I couldn’t take a picture in natural lighting because I finished it at 10 p.m. I considered waiting to wrap it until tomorrow morning so that I could take some photos in the morning before work — then I realized that mornings are hard enough on me as is and I shouldn’t add anything extra. I also forgot to add a label before wrapping it up all pretty. Next time…
amy lee replied:
looks great! nice work on the quilting! have you heard of ‘stich in the ditch’ feet for your machine? there’s also a 1/4 inch foot that is amazing – you can basically sew with your eyes closed….let me know, i’ll tell you more about it.
August 5, 2009 at 8:03 am. Permalink.