A few weeks ago a new baby girl arrived in our family - and I knew exactly what fabric I wanted to make a quilt with! I'd seen this fabric range in my local quilt shop, Quilters Haven, and I was able to get a charm pack, some fabric for the backing and for the binding too - this fabric range is "Miss Kate" by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I used a favourite pattern, "Charm Squares Baby Quilt" by Elizabeth Hartman (the pattern is a free download from her blog, Oh Fransson!). This quilt is really simple to make, and in no time at all the rows were pieced together...
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...I had bought some white Kona fabric for the borders and sashing, but changed my mind at the last minute and used some white self-patterned fabric by Makower instead. Once the sashing and borders were stitched into place, a final press with the iron and the quilt top was completed...
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...a quick photo shoot, then I layered the quilt together. I used fabric from the "Miss Kate" range for the backing and Quilters Dream cotton wadding, select weight. Once I'd spray basted the layers together (my favourite is 505 spray), I could start quilting. I used a white Aurifil thread 40/2 weight and firstly quilted this with along each side of the sashing and borders with stitch-in-the-ditch...
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...then the real quilting started - lots of straight rows, half an inch apart, using the edge of the walking foot as a guide. This gives the quilt a ribbed texture, and the finished quilt is beautifully soft. I added a label into the corner on the back, stitching through all layers, approximately an eighth of an inch from the the edge of the label...
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...more fabric from the "Miss Kate" range was used for the binding. These strips were cut 3.5" wide, and folded in half. Using the edge of the walking foot as a guide once again, the binding was machined into place. The corners were mitred, and then the binding was folded over to the back of the quilt and hand sewn into place using a matching coloured Aurifil thread. I really prefer quilts with a half inch wide finished binding...
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...and here is the finished quilt, all ready to be wrapped and posted off with lots of love to the new baby.
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