baby gifts

A Variety of Projects from The Cozy Quilter

Somehow, I managed to do some sewing almost every day this past week. Two sunflowers are almost done in this quadrant of my sunflower cross stitch. I also added a bee and some leaves.

I'm going to a wedding shower tomorrow for my cousin's daughter. If you know her, please don't spill the beans. I am quite sure that the bride to be does not read my blog! I made her these pillowcases--they like to go camping so the canoe fabric was chosen with this in mind.

I also made her two coiled rope hot pads. The ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 7 months, 1 week ago. under baby gifts , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hst's , pumpkins , rope bowls , shweshwe , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Home from Our Getaway! from The Cozy Quilter

We got home Saturday night at 1am from a 6 day trip to Illinois and Indiana. It was our first time crossing the border to the US since before the pandemic. My quilting friend, Christine, and her husband came with us. The original inspiration for the trip was an advertisement I saw online for a display of Ken Burns' antique quilts at the Peoria Riverfront Museum in Illinois...I told my husband that it would be interesting to see this exhibit and the vacation grew out of this small seed that I planted! We spent a few hours at the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under baby gifts , baby quilts , finn , frank lloyd wright , ken burns' quilts , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , vacations

Pink Ribbons Quilt - Tickled Pink Blog Hop from Creatin' in the Sticks

Welcome to Creatin' in the Sticks

and
my day - the final day for the Tickled Pink Blog Hop.

To all that participated or commented -

Thank you so much!

My head is swimming with all kinds of love

and I can't wait to try some new pink projects.

But first, it's my day to show my

Pink Ribbons Quilt.

When the idea for this hop came along, my first thought was that I needed to use up some of the pink scraps in my ever-growing stash.

With a Granddaughter, it seems I've accumulated a lot of pink fabric ...

added by Carla 2 years, 2 months ago. under baby gifts , blog hops , quilts , valentine's day

Scrappy Teddy Bear Quilt - Polar Bear Plunge Blog Hop from Creatin' in the Sticks

Welcome to

Creatin' in the Sticks!

Today is the first day of the first blog hop of 2022!

I'm excited to kick off the

Polar Bear Plunge Blog Hop

where bloggers are sharing favorite "chilly" projects.

To get the blog hop started,

I present my

Scrappy Teddy Bear Quilt

Joan at MooseStash Quilting presented bloggers with the challenge to make something

inspired by

bears, blue, or anything cold.

Thank you, Joan, for inviting me to join this super fun blog hop!

The timing of this blog hop couldn't be better.

My Scrappy Teddy Bear Quilt is for my ...

added by Carla 2 years, 3 months ago. under baby gifts , blog hops , gifts , quilts , toys

Hand and Machine Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

Welcome to my weekly stitching and knitting report. At the last minute, I decided to make a Black block for my 13th block for my RSC quilt this year. I had lots of fun 2.5" squares to use for this block!

Many of you were wondering last week how I was going to use 13 blocks instead of 12 in this quilt top. Well, you don't have to wait any longer. Here is the almost finished quilt top. I still need to add a white border around the entire top. Then, it will go in the pile of ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 9 months ago. under baby gifts , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , love birds , rainbow scrap challenge , scrappy quilts , slow sunday stitching

Baby Paw from Sew Sunshine

This week was either wind and rain, or wind and cold or just wind. I have been chomping at the bit to get out and get some photos. Today it was sun and wind so I went out. I had moments when the quilt almost went into orbit but caught a few to share at least.

This is a Baby Paw. I have a great nephew that this is going to even though he just turned one already. ( I actually have his big brothers quilt even though he will turn 4) I digress.... ha

I had a bunch of solid ...

added by Kris 3 years, 1 month ago. under baby gifts , baby paw , baby quilt , bear paw , new baby , solids , stash

Party At My House, Y'All! C'Mon and Link Up your TGIFF Finishes! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Hello and HAPPY FRIDAY, everyone! If you've come looking for the Thank Goodness It's FINISHED Friday Linky Party, welcome -- you're in the right place. I'm delighted to be hosting this week's finish party.

I'm so excited to share my finish this week. I know I say this a lot, but I found another new favorite edge-to-edge quilting design that I am crushing on this week:

37 x 37 HST Baby Quilt with Echo Bubble Meander E2E

This 37" x 37" quilt top was pieced by a fellow member of the Charlotte Quilters' Guild for ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 1 month ago. under baby gifts , charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , e2e , long arm quilting , notorious r.b.g. , outreach

Hello Buttercup - Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop from Creatin' in the Sticks

Today is my stop in the
Dust Off a Quilt Book

Blog Hop

Hosted by Bea at Beaquilter.

So, Hello Buttercup.

The idea for the hop is to find an old quilt book on your shelf and make something from it.

Here is my lovely:

Quilts, Quilts, and More Quilts by Diana McClun and Laura Nownes

To be honest, I don't know how I came about owning this book, but it was in a stack and it just called to me. Especially this page:

I decided to change the layout of the blocks and make it my ...

added by Carla 3 years, 1 month ago. under baby gifts , blog hops , quilts

More Square Drama for a NICU Cuddle Quilt from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good Monday morning!

More Square Drama E2E on a 39 x 42 Baby Quilt

I quilted a new E2E design yesterday on a 39" x 42" outreach top that was pieced by a fellow member of the Charlotte Quilters Guild. Kind of fun, don't you think? The digital design is called More Square Drama from Wasatch Quilting and it's dense but not thready because there's no backstitching. I see marshmallows, or melting ice cubes, or roses, or Flintstone wheels, or fried eggs...

I love quilting designs that can be chameleons like that, evoking something different each time ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 4 months ago. under baby gifts , charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , e2e , long arm quilting , outreach

Someone Pinch Me! My Mission Impossible Quilt was Juried Into QuiltCon Together 2021! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

You guys, I got the acceptance email two days ago, but I couldn't tell anyone about it at first because it seemed so unreal. I had to go to bed, wake up in the morning, and check my email again to make sure it was still there. My Mission Impossible quilt was accepted by the jurists into QuiltCon Together 2021!

Just a Glimpse of My Mission Impossible Quilt

This quilt is my original design, made for my oldest son's high school graduation in 2019 and sized to fit his XL Twin dorm bed when he went off to ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 4 months ago. under baby gifts , letter home , long arm quilting , mission impossible graduation 2019 , monograms , quilt show , quiltcon , quiltcon together 2021 , quilting with rulers , show quilt

Study In Softness: Marybeth's Flannel-Backed Baby Quilt from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I just finished quilting this sweet and snuggly-soft baby quilt for my friend Marybeth. Her #1 priority was keeping the quilting light enough so the quilt would be as soft as possible for tucking around a little one in a stroller. Isn't it sweet?

Marybeth's Snuggly-Soft Baby Quilt

We chose the pantograph Gingersnap from Urban Elementz and I adjusted the pattern density in my IntelliQuilter to where the scale of the double circles complemented the scale of Marybeth's pieced squares and HSTs. The thread is Glide in a pale blue color called Cloud.

Gingersnap Pantograph from Urban ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 4 months ago. under baby gifts , client projects , e2e , flannel , gingersnap , long arm quilting , pantographs

Monogram Baby Quilt Finish + IntelliQuilter Computer Robotics Installation from Cheeky Cognoscenti

C is for Charlie, 42 x 42 prior to washing

First Big News: A Quilt Finish!

My AQS Letter Home QAL (resized, recolored, and with EPP monogram block added) is finished! I wrapped it up last night, carefully packed it in a box along with big sister Margot's butterfly/clam shell quilt, and Bernie just entrusted the package to the safekeeping of UPS for its journey to New Mexico. Godspeed, little quilts! May you arrive safely and be literally loved to pieces!

Letter Home Monogram Baby, Quilting Completed

I ended up really liking how the the custom quilting came ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 5 months ago. under baby gifts , custom quilting , intelliquilter , letter home , monograms , quilting , quilting with rulers

Goal Posts for November: The IntelliQuilter is Coming!! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good morning! It's Election Day in the United States, but we've already voted early so there's nothing to do about that except wait and see what happens... With civic duties already completed and no further power to affect the election outcome, I may as well shift my focus to what I CAN control: Quilting goals for the week and for the fresh, crisp month of November!

This Week's Goals:

Letter Home Monogram Baby Quilt Nearly Quilted

1. I'm still working on finishing up the last of my October goals, my Letter Home Monogram baby quilt ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 5 months ago. under baby gifts , goals , intelliquilter , letter home , long arm quilting , monograms , one monthly goal , technology

Goodbye, October 2020! Baby Quilt Update (and Happy Halloween) from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Well, October is officially a wrap. The trick-or-treaters have gone home and my husband, younger son, and I have set ourselves to the task of finishing off the leftover candy. I've powered off my long arm machine for the night, even though I'm only 2/5 of the way through quilting the baby quilt that was supposed to be Part Two of my One Monthly Goal for October. Here's what Charlie's quilt looks like so far:

My Letter Home Monogram Baby Quilt is 2/5 Quilted

I loaded this quilt on my frame upside-down, so I ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 5 months ago. under anders , baby gifts , bernie , free motion quilting , halloween , lars , letter home , long arm quilting , modern baby clam shell , one monthly goal , quilting with rulers , thread

Butterflies in Margot's Garden (Modern Baby Clam Shells) Ta-DONE! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I'm finally able to share my Modern Baby Clam Shells finish with you! Its final name is "Butterflies in Margot's Garden," named after the little girl for whom it was made. (This quilt is my original design; no pattern currently available).

Butterflies in Margot's Garden, Before Washing, 42" x 42"

I have always washed my finished quilts prior to gifting them, for a number of reasons: I want to remove any skin oils, hand lotion, dust, quilt markings, washable basting glue, spray starch, etc that may have been applied to the quilt during the process of making ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 5 months ago. under baby gifts , long arm quilting , modern baby clam shell , pantographs , quilting , semi-custom quilting

Yes, I'm Still Here, Working On Baby Quilts... from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Hello, my lovelies! It felt good to step away from the blog for a few days.

We brought our 19-year-old son home from college for the weekend so he could cast his very first vote in a Presidential election during Early Voting rather than having to change his voter registration to his college address. My 17-year-old son has strong opinions about the election that he believes we're all entitled to hearing, and he is not pleased to be the only nonvoting member of the family. ;-). Hah!

I made more progress on my baby quilt version of the AQS "Letter ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 6 months ago. under aqs , baby gifts , letter home , modern baby clam shell , piecing

One Monthly Goal: October 2020 from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I'm late to the OMG (One Monthly Goal) party this month, slipping in my link right before the OMG goal setting linky closes over at Elm Street Quilts. I did not meet my September goal, and wasn't sure what my October goal should be. So hard to pick ONE goal when so many are swirling around my monster to-do list!

October OMG Part I: Modern Baby Clam Shells Quilt

Okay, so my October OMG is going to be a two-fer-one special, because these two quilts are going to the same home. By the time Halloween rolls around, I ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 6 months ago. under baby gifts , letter home , modern baby clam shell , monograms , omg , one monthly goal

Using EQ8 with Pinterest to Create a Quilt Palette: AQS Letter Home, 5 Baby Quilt Options from Cheeky Cognoscenti

AQS Letter Home Quilt, Original Colorway

Have you seen the AQS Letter Home QAL? This one-block quilt caught my eye as I was hunting for quick but interesting baby quilt ideas. Although the QAL (quilt-along) instructions are for a 60" x 60" finished quilt, this easily becomes a 42" x 42" quilt by shrinking the block size to 8" and adding a 2" border. I do like the original AQS colorway (shown above), but since I was resizing the quilt in my EQ8 quilt design software anyway I thought I'd experiment with some alternative color palettes to see if ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 7 months ago. under aqs , baby gifts , color , design , eq8 , pinterest

Of Butterflies for Modern Baby Clam Shells, a Veteran's Quilt, + Pantograph Patterns from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good morning and happy Labor Day weekend to readers in the United States! I am DELIGHTED to share that I finally finished piecing the body of my Modern Baby Clam Shells quilt top!

Modern Baby Clam Shells Top is Pieced!

I'll be adding 2" borders in the same Grunge Sky background fabric later today. For the moment, I'm just reveling in my smooth curves and the fact that this top came out so flat and so square.

[Note to self: Machine piecing a clam shell quilt combines Y-seams with curved seams. Definitely doable, but it was fiddly and tedious and it took me a week ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 7 months ago. under baby gifts , curved piecing , long arm quilting , machine embroidery , modern baby clam shell , pantographs , veteran's quilt

Machine Piecing the Modern Baby Clam Shells Quilt, with Help from QNM from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Hello, my lovelies! My one and only weekly goal last week was to START -- just to start, not to finish, mind you! -- piecing my Modern Baby Clam Shells quilt. I created the design in my EQ8 software in December of 2018, with a specific baby in mind whose due date was several weeks away... Then it took me awhile to find the 9.5" acrylic clam shell templates I wanted to use (from an Australian Etsy seller who has since closed her shop). Then I hemmed and hawed about the best way to cut out completely accurate 9.5" diameter ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 8 months ago. under aurifil , baby gifts , bernina , bernina 475qe , clamshells , curved piecing , modern baby clam shell , patchwork , piecing , quilter's newsletter magazine

What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

First Big News: A Quilt Finish!

This Week's Goals: