:: the oldest daughter:: quilt for baby

i pieced this one... this is the first quilt for the baby. 

all four of us (three generations!) have quilted on it :)

::the oldest daughter:: shhh, it's a gift...

Just kidding. I know that only the four of us look at this blog!

I finally finished the little baby quilt that I started way back when I first showed my turquoise and orange quilt. Chad started harassing me last week about unfinished gifts, namely a baby quilt I started when another sister-in-law was pregnant. The baby was walking and talking before Mom took the quilt home to finish for me! So, his teasing got me in gear and last week, I finished it up.

I tried to do some machine quilting, wonky style. It was definitely wonky. I made squares like snail shells, does that make sense? One inside of each of the blocks in the strip down the middle, three down the narrow side, and two huge ones on the wide side. There was nothing quilted in the solid brown, and though I didn't notice it before, this picture tells me that was NOT a good idea! I also still don't know how to do a binding, so I did a cheater binder with the back of the quilt. Soooooo many flaws that I was tempted to point out in a letter, but I refrained.

I finished it just as our nephews were coming to visit, so I washed it up, hung it out to dry, and enlisted their help for holding it in the picture. Not as good as I would have liked, but still pretty cute. (The back is a pink with brown polka dots, just like the front).

-Alison

::the oldest daughter:: weekend work

I've found it's a lot easier to piece one regular block each night than it is to do all of these setting blocks. I'll be honest - they're getting kind of old... I'm going a little bit slower getting all of these put together than I'd like, but I can only work on it a little bit at night when I get home from work. Someday they'll be done...

~Alison

::the oldest daughter:: star quilt in progress

Well, here's the latest... which doesn't feel like a whole lot of progress. I do have all of my star blocks complete. I have all my four patches complete. I almost have all of my sashing cut out. The best news is that I still love how the quilt looks... it will be fun to see it actually come together. You can also see over there on the side, I started working on a quilt for my sister-in-law, Lindsey, who's having her first baby this fall. It'll be more of a modern design... translation: no pattern. I had Chad call her sister and found out that the baby's room is going to be pink and brown, so hopefully this fits in all right.

I ran out of white (I'm using Kona cotton in Snow...) so I went to the hardware store to get some more... (??? I know, funny, huh?) and I bought 2 more yards of Kona Snow... when I got it home, it looks different, darker! I was so bummed because I was afraid I'd never get to match it, but I think I'm kind of over it. I'll probably be the only one who ever even notices it.

~Alison