baby quilts!

i finished this pair of baby quilts last week but the weather hasn't been cooperating so i wasn't able to get some good pictures until today. it feels so good to be productive and finishing things again! here is the first of the 2 baby quilts, the modern quilt guild solids challenge quilt, i'm calling it rainbolts because they look like little lightning bolts and sort of rainbow coloured...

i'm really happy with how it turned out, it's actually even better than i had pictured in my head, and certain better than how it looked on graph paper, haha!

the finished quilt is about 32" by 35", quilting it was sooo easy! now i know why so many people like making baby quilts.

for the back of the quilt, i pieced together some kona buttercup with kona ash, and a P&B textile green solid (i was lazy...), and i bound it with a solid binding of kona coal.


the second baby quilt is the nap quilt. i really love this quilt too, both of these will be hard to give away.

the finished quilt is 33" by 36", and i quilted it in wavy lines with my walking foot on the machine. i used scraps from my stash and free hand pieced the letters, and the 2 grey solids are kona coal and kona ash.

i know the baby who will be enjoying this quilt will be a baby boy, so i used some sunny, happy and boyish colours for the letters, which were really easy and really fun to piece! i think there might be an alphabet quilt in my future...

it's backed with the extremely soft and snugly heather ross riding clothes print from west hill. for the binding i used the urban green print which looks just like the green tiles from flea market fancy!

now i just need to make a couple of quilt labels and they will be gifted to the proud mom and dad-to-be next week at work, we are having a surprise baby shower for them! i hope the little boys and their parents like their quilts, and that they will keep them warm and cozy for a few years!