Baby Quilt Is Started!

Lately I've been purchasing most of my quilting fabric from the Fat Quarter Shop.  I just love the variety that they have, the prices aren't bad and to be quite honest I like being able to look at a bunch of different fabrics without having to wander all over a store carrying bolts with me!  I've bought fabric from there twice now and they ship it pretty quickly and it comes packaged so nice!

I'm making this quilt for my supervisor's baby and was told that his wife prefers greens to the typical blues for a baby boy.  I was having trouble finding the right green and then I found this!

It's perfect for a baby boy!!

This is part of the Backyard Baby collection by Michael Miller.  I found a pattern for a Dutch Windmill block quilt that I'm using.  The book has various prints used for the windmill's but I've decided to only use the print above for all the block on a white background.

There are 4 corner windmills that I'm going to do in a solid green that will also make up the binding and the backing.  Here are all the fabrics together:

I have just started cutting everything and I need to hustle so I can have it finished by March when his baby is due. 

Finally Finished!

I finally finished the Owl Quilt.  I was joking that I would finish the quilt before her daughter turned 18.  Thankfully she just turned 3 months so I finished in good time!

Sorry the picture is a little wonky.  Overall it was an easy quilt.  If I did it over again I would do the applique's with freezer paper instead of fusible webbing. I think I must be kinda old school because I prefer the look of the freezer paper applique as well as hand quilting.  It took me about 3 months to hand quilt this, but I think it turned out great!

Owl Quilt

A good friend of mine is having a little girl and the baby's room theme is owls.

I found the cutest owl quilt pattern and I'm almost finished with it!  There are 5 different appliqued owl blocks I tried to incorporate as many colors as possible so that it would be bright and pretty much match anything.  I also tried to make each owl in a different color combo.

Here's the basic layout before I pieced it together, not counting the borders.

Even though it takes forever I really love to hand quilt my quilts so I'm hoping to get this finished soon.  My friend's baby girl is due on April 9th so I'm running short on time!!