A Sweet Baby Quilt

Fair warning this post is sooooo full of pictures of a very pink quilt :)

So a very good friend of mine had a little baby girl last month.  I was so very excited when I got the text at 2:30 in the morning that it was a girl!  I was not able to make it to her baby shower the month before, but I sent here out a package with Bunny and Ellie.  She did not know what she was having ahead of time so I had to wait to start the quilt.  Well I got the text Wednesday morning, the 28th,  and so after physical therapy that day I made a trip to my LQS to shop for fabrics.  I wanted to match Bunny and Ellie as much as possible.  I was so excited to be shopping for pink!  I already had the white raindrop from Ellie and the brown and blue polka dot.  I also had the pink and brown and the blue and brown flower fabrics.

So while at my LQS I pulled out all the pink and brown that I could find and only the best would do.   I ended up with the pink with the brown splotches, the pink and white dot, and the brown and pink polka dot.  I also went to another fabric shop I love and got the pink and brown circles and the backing.  I pulled a piece of pink and brown swirly from my stash that I have been saving for something special.

The backing... love it!

So I decided I wanted to make this a fun quilt with lots of little squares, I love the look of postage stamp quilts, so I cut out 2 inch squares of my main fabrics and make blocks with them.  I didn't want a pattern, I like the random look.  So I made blocks of 9 squares by 9 squares.  I also decided I would be turning them on point.

Only halfway done with blocks at this point.  Pressing all those seems took forever!  But I kept at it...

And now the top was all done!!

I love how neat all my seems look!  

Ok, I am also proud of my corners... that was a lot of work!

I decided to free motion quilt the baby quilt.  This was the first quilt that wasn't a mug rug or mini that I have free motion quilted.  I did each block separately and then did a squiggle along the borders of the blocks.  I used a variegated pink thread that really stood out against the brown.  I used warm and natural for the batting.  

Closer look of the quilting. 

And the back.  I framed the backing fabric with the brown and pink swirly.  You can see the pattern of the blocks if you look closely at the quilting from the back.

I loved the look so much that I decided I needed to make a smaller, snuggley quilt that will be perfect in the car or stroller or to be dragged around when she is a little older or ever a quilt for her dolls when she is older, too.  This block I made 10 squares by 10 squares and then made small borders.  I also free motion quilted this, but I backed it with minky that I framed a little piece of the backing (thank heaven for little girls) so I didn't want too much quilting to keep it super soft.  

Both together... I love all the pink!

I am so happy with how these two quilts turned out.  I love all the pinkness!  The baby quilt is about 48"x48" and the mini is about 20"X20".  

I sent them off to their new owner.  I find it so exciting that there is a new little person in the world and I love that I was able to make her a special gift.  I can not wait to meet this little bundle of happiness that I made this quilts for.  

And here is a link to a picture of the sweet little girl with her new quilt.  

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story and at Quilting by the River Linky Party Tuesday.