Everything is Always Rosie: Latest baby quilts

Hi all:

I wanted to post some pictures of the two baby quilts I just made for different people. The first one is of course, a flannel one. I have made about 10-12 of these over the years, for various people and I like making them as they are quick and require no real quilting. I like making rag quilts only in small sizes as you know how much cutting the fringe is!!!!!

This is the quilt I made for the director of my band, who's wife had a baby last week. He wasn't sure if it would be a boy or girl so I made the quilt with green flannels. I think it turned out quite well. I managed to cut it out, sew it and fringe it in about 3 1/2 hours as I wanted to present it that night at rehearsal. I also made a small cuddly, soothing blanket for his older daughter, so she wouldn't feel left out with the " new arrival".

I wanted to sew it up fast, so I made the blocks 10" x 10" and cut the fringe on each row as I went along. It goes much quicker that way!!

As well, I realized that very good friends of ours are having another grandchild in March. Since I made a rag quilt for their daughter's baby, I also need to make something homemade for their son's baby. Frankly, I am a little tired of making rag flannel quilts so I decided to make a quick baby quilt using some of my "Oink-a-doodle-moo" fabric. I immediately fell in love with this fabric when I first saw it and had to buy it. I could only get some of the prints and was saving it to make a small lap quilt for us - barnyard animals for adults??? Blasphemy!!! It doesn't matter that this is a child's print. I loved it so much, I wanted a quilt made from it as well. I managed to make large 10" blocks and use only 1 panel of the large panel print.(it is hard to part with any of them but I decided on the chickens). I then cut 5 1/4" blocks for the chicken wire and watermelon prints. I thought the watermelon went well with the colour scheme and farm theme and I had left over fabric from the orchard quilt I am working on right now. I think it turned out well too. I will be sandwiching it with some leftover yellow flannel and leftover bamboo batting and then "quilting" it quickly, along the seams on my own machine. I will post it when completely finished but here are pictures of the quilt top.

Here is a picture of my bobbin cover. In a quilting class, I was told to cut a piece of moleskin bandage and adhere it to the bobbin case to mark that perfect 1/4" line. It works really well, as you keep the edge of your fabric aligned with the moleskin and sew a perfect 1/4" seam. I used an Elastoplast heavy fabric bandage and cut a small strip from it. It sticks really well and will last a long time. Just simply replace it when it starts to fray or curl. (My secret to perfect seams).