A quilt for Juliet

A friend of mine and his wife are expecting their second child in February.  I figured it would be nice to make them something little for her.  When I asked what colors they were going to use I was told "pink with hearts".  And my first thought was "ugh, I am not sure I have anything in my stash that will work."  So I went digging, and I do mean digging since part of my stash is packed in bins.  To my surprise (and yes I was surprised with what I found) I found a nice pile of valentine fabrics... pink with hearts.

I decided I wanted to make it a simple quilt, so it wouldn't take too much time and I loved the look of many strip like quilts I have seen lately ( like this one from A Quilt Story).  So I went to work cutting strips of the fabrics.  I cut 2 - 2.5" strips of 6 of the fabrics.  And 6 - 2.5" inch strips of the last one (these are for my sashings).  I then cut each of the strips of the  6 main colors in half (making 24 strips).  I laid them out, sewing 6 strips together lengthwise at a time.  I did this 3 times, leaving the last 6 strips alone.

I trimmed up the strips and measured them to see what length I had to play with for strips I wanted to cut.  I then decided on what I wanted for the widths of my strips in my quilt and went with cutting 2 - 3" strips, 2 - 4.5" strips and the last piece left was just about 6 inches.  I did this to the 3 sets of pre-sewn strips and then to the individual strips too.

I left some strips apart because I wanted to give more of a random look to the strips and didn't want them to be perfectly matching.  I laid out the strips and began to put together my strips.


Once they were all together I pressed them and sewed them together with the sashings.  I love the look of this quilt.  It came together quickly, except for the hour I spent changing the thread in my serger.  (Ugh!)



And it is not overly pink as I thought it would be.  Now onto the quilting and the binding.