




![]() Another baby quilt has been pieced and embroidered and quilted and bound - this one is for a very special friend who is soon to be a Grandma - well, the quilt is not for her, obviously, but for her soon to arrive grand-daughter. The fabric I chose for this is called "Puttin' On The Ritz" and is by Bunnyhill Designs for Moda. I bought a pack of 10" strips from my local quiltshop, Quilters Haven, and aded the strips of white paisley design from my stash. The original pattern suggests making these quilts with a pack of charm squares. The pattern is called Charm Squares Baby Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman, and is a free download from her blog Oh Fransson - this is one of my favourite baby quilt patterns. It is very quick and simple to piece together, and I just love the subtle pinks and greys in this fabric collection..... ![]() .....I have stitched the words with backstitch, using a pink Cosmo embroidery thread shade 803 and I used 3 strands of thread as the letters are quite large. I traced these words from a book called "Winsome Baby" by Nancy Halvorsen. I love adding some stitchery to these baby quilts..... ![]() .....and I've quilted it using straight rows of quilting, ½" apart. I used white Mettler quilting thread to quilt the rows on the white sashing, but used a King Tut variegated quilting thread in pink and beige, shade 944 for the rest of the quilt, and I also used the same thread in the bobbin too..... ![]() .....the binding fabric and the backing fabric is also from the same Bunnyhill Designs range of fabrics, "Puttin' On The Ritz". As a final little flourish, as usual I've added one of my labels to finish it off..... ![]() .....what do you think Sharon? Do you think your grand-daughter will like being wrapped up in this quilt?
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Eva
30/7/2012 03:57:13 pm
I love this quilt. The fabrics; the stitchery, your quilting...... yes it's beautiful, Nicola. Lucky is the babygirl who get this...
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This is a sweet little quilt, I love the stitchery on it, one of these days I will do some hand stitching...
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Waynna Kershner
21/7/2015 06:56:59 am
I am making a quilt for one of my nieces and I am using Puttin On the Ritz fabric. But, I am needing more fabric to finish borders. I am making a scrappy braid for the borders out of as many of the fabrics in this line that I can get. I am writing to see if you might happen to have any of this fabric leftover from your beautiful quilt that you might be willing to sell me.
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