Three babies and a wedding

This child's quilt is the last of my funglies started last summer as a challenge from Tonya and Bonnie to use up our fun and ugly fabrics in a liberated way. I chose the framed nine-patch as my pattern, and made three tops: one 60 by 80 which has been donated to Mennonite Central Committee as a relief quilt, a little pink and blue one (see post below) given to a new baby, and this one from juvenile novelties which I backed with flannelette and tied.



Here are two baby quilts for the children's hospital, meant for boys. The single Irish chain at left is made entirely from scraps, and it is machine quilted in diagnoal lines to a flannelette backing, and bound in navy. The one at the right is the Chimneys and Cornerstones blocks in blues and greens and tone on tone whites from my stash. It has a fun Michael Miller print called Clown Check in the sashings, binding and backing, and was (inexpertly) machine quilted by me. I'm much more comfortable with hand quilting, and I've whined here before how the feed dogs don't drop on my old Elna SP, so this one is done in straight lines (with just a few puckers here or there.) I figure I won't get better unless I practise, and these small quilts are great for that.

And here's that wedding quilt, all handquilted

Yvonne was touched by all your kind comments from my post a few weeks back and she deserves all the credit for putting this quilt together. We hung it from the balcony in her house on the weekend to get a good look at it. For the record, this pattern is called "Melon Patch", found in a book about antique quilts. She has three weeks to get the binding on, not a small task considering the weather has finally turned warm here and it's not the best time to sit around hand sewing binding on with a queen-sized quilt on your lap.