Baby clothes quilt no.2

Posted on 29 August 2009

Yay, it’s finished at last. I started making this quilt for my niece Rylee about 3 years ago, when my brother was wanting to pass on her outgrown clothes. I had made one for my son Ewan, and was quite keen to do another using pink girly clothing. It has turned out much bigger than it really needed to be. I think I had originally intended to make it 3 x 4 blocks, but somehow decided that 4 x 5 blocks would be a good idea…now it covers our king size bed!

Rylee's quilt

I used a nine patch block with the central square cut in denim (from her jeans) to give some stability to the stretchier knits. Most of the denim squares had some kind of embroidery detail already on the fabric, so the plain ones got the applique treatment with different flower motifs. As with Ewan’s quilt, all the knit fabrics are backed with fusible interfacing to stop them stretching as I sew. I machine quilted along the sashing strips running across the quilt, and did lots of hand quilted motifs all over the quilt using images from the fabrics as inspiration.

Quilt blocks

Here is Rylee receiving her quilt.

Rylee cuddles her new quilt

I think she liked it!

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  • Raewyn

    That’s just gorgeous – what a lot of work must have gone into it!

  • Kerryn

    Wow Karlene! That is really impressive! You’ve done an amazing job on it ๐Ÿ™‚

  • karlene

    Thanks guys, its nice to have some positive feedback.

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