baby quilts

Two Retreats in a Row from The Cozy Quilter

Yes... Christine and I were at quilting retreats two weekends in a row! I had a second set of projects lined up to take to our annual Spring Oxford Guild retreat before the Camp Kintail retreat. The truth is that I could go on even more retreats and still come up with projects to work on. Christine is in the same boat!

I finished up my chain link blocks for the vice president's challenge--I have decided to set them on point but have not decided if I want to add sashing or not before sewing them together. I will ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 days, 12 hours ago. under 12 green bottles quilt , baby quilts , binding , finn , hand sewing , jo avery , oxford quilters guild , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , solids , thread house academy

Kintail Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I spent last weekend at Camp Kintail at the crafter's retreat. Others were making paper crafts, scrapbooks, knitting and painting. Four participants were quilting. It's always fun to see what everyone is making. The food and snacks were plentiful and tasty too.

My first project was an open wide zipper pouch that I had started at home. This one may just stay here for me to use. This project was a good place to use the large scale print that I loved but would not be good to cut up into smaller pieces

Next, I made ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 6 days ago. under baby quilts , embroidery , finn , folk art creatures , hand quilting , jo avery , knitting , oxford quilters guild , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , thread house academy , walking foot quilting , zippered pouch

February 2026 monthly recap................. from Exuberant Color

Three finishes, one large, two small. Purple Rosy joins Green Rosy on the finished quilts pile. It is a Kaffe Fassett pattern in several of his books and I followed the pattern loosely, making my own version of it. It is 65" x 82".

The other two are baby quilts to add to my selection for parents and grandparents to choose from. In the center is a quilt made from a pile of blocks using leftovers from another quilt and a large print. It is 32" x 34.5", perfect for tummy time for a baby. On the right is ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 3 days ago. under baby quilts , monthly recap

Choosing a binding................... from Exuberant Color

The quilting was finished yesterday, the quilt trimmed and now it was time to choose a binding. At first I thought a multicolor stripe, but then I decided black and white might be better.

Here are my three choices. There were many more to choose from but I settled on these.

This stripe has the most white in it and the black lines are curvy.

The black lines are straight and closer together on this one.

It's always fun to find a diagonal stripe in the stash. This one is darker than the other two. I'll make a ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under baby quilts , binding , machine quilting

Quilting started........... from Exuberant Color

The basting was done before noon and quilting started last night. I finally found the quilt that these bright leftovers are from. Here is a post that shows the quilt top. It's no wonder I couldn't remember it because it was 13 1/2 years ago.

I decided on straight line quilting and got it over half quilted. The lines aren't perfectly straight but I challenge any baby to complain about it.

It's supposed to reach 60 degrees today and then snow predicted both weekend days.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 5 days ago. under baby quilts , machine quilting

This week, and another finished quilt! from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

What we’re doing during our sometimes-annual Snowmaggedon week.

Snowmaggedon is being re-nicknamed to Snowzilla. Or Sleetzilla. The snow came and came and finally stopped Sunday, and sleet was off and on all day Saturday and I think that night. But we’re still warm and toasty inside, and if we wanted to go anywhere, we couldn’t. I’m ok with it. The windchill has us in the negative digits this weekend and Monday; no thawing will happen until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest, but it will take awhile for this stuff to go away.

The photo above is ...

added by Shari - a prim and (not so) proper quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , family , finally finished 2026 , grief and loss , quilting , sergers , sewing , the bins

On Deck - the baby quilt for the new great-grandson from A Prim and (not so) Proper Quilter

All babies are special, and the ones in my life get a quilt.

I know I have said this on multiple occasions, but my granddaughter Cheyanne told me via FaceTime that she was going to have another baby ON MY BIRTHDAY. I was just giddy! But a sequence of events has pushed the arrival to an earlier date. I finished piecing the baby quilt top in November, but had put off the quilting of it until we got a little closer to the April due date. But we also know that babies come when they tell you they are coming ...

added by Shari - a prim and (not so) proper quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , brother luminaire innov-is xp3 , cataracts , digitizing , edge to edge , embrilliance , family , it's a baby quilt , machine embroidery , quilting

BABY CHATMAN QUILT! from Kwilty Pleasures

A new great-grand daughter arrives in January.

I made her quilt, long before she was a gleam in her daddies eyes!

I was at Ocean Isle Beach a few years ago and made

a test pattern using Into the Woods Jelly Rolls...

I've always loved Lil'' Red !

The pattern was called TYPE and a very quick and easy make.

There was a local garden, not far from the beach

so I made a journey there for a photo op...

Into the Woods.

Then home it came and sat on a shelf for several years.

Now that Baby Chatman was ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under 2025 quilts , baby quilts

Finished!............... from Exuberant Color

I didn't want to deal with keeping pink checks or plaid straight for binding so I used the gray one that had enough yardage. This flannel baby quilt is 32" x 40".

This little quilt has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it. I used white thread to quilt it on my Pfaff 7570.

This pile of mail that I have received in 9 days is 19 solicitations for money. There is even 2 from each of 2 organizations, like I didn't react soon enough so I need a 'reminder'. Obviously some charity sold my address to some data ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under baby quilts , binding , flannel quilts

Machine quilting again.................. from Exuberant Color

The machine ditch quilting is done on this flannel baby quilt now. The squares are 4" and that is the recommended maximum space with Hobbs 80/20 batting.

The backing is a cute diagonal plaid. I haven't decided on binding yet but will look for it today.

It's going to be cold over the weekend so I'm glad I don't have anywhere to go.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts

A little bit of everything................. from Exuberant Color

I had a few things to take care of in the basement so while I was down there I got this little quilt ready for basting. It didn't keep my interest though so I moved on.

My friend who visited on Monday wanted to buy some black and white batik fabrics for this quilt. I had the fabrics in 2 bins and had large and small pieces all mixed together.

I want to sort through them now and get all of the small pieces in one bin and large pieces in the other bin. There is a lot more ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under baby quilts , basting , binding , black and white , flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , marcia derse fabric

Second quilt top for January 2026................... from Exuberant Color

A friend came over to use my double design wall in the basement yesterday so I was down there pressing several fabrics, including the alternate block fabric in this little quilt top. This ended up 32" x 36". I am really pleased with it, especially since it used orphan blocks and a large print that was an impulse buy on sale. It will get quilted next month.

Last night I pulled this basket off a shelf to take a look through it. It is 2.5" batik strips, all shorter than full width (43"). It's almost overwhelming how many ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under baby quilts , batik

Choice made................ from Exuberant Color

I decided to go with #3 choice from my previous post. I not only liked it best, it is also one of those hard to use prints because of the size of motifs. It will be perfect in 8.5" x 9.5" blocks.

While I was at it, I chose a backing fabric too. This is a surprise project, not at all planned, started just by looking through drawers of sewn pieces. I need to turn the iron on today and press fabrics so I can do some cutting. I also sewed the top and bottom borders on the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under baby quilts , machine embroidery , triangles

Quilting the pinwheels................. from Exuberant Color

When I got home from PT yesterday I basted this little pinwheel quilt and started quilting it last night. I'm ditch quilting this one with white thread. I have 9 more rows to stitch and then I can trim it and choose binding. I have a feeling it will be a black and white stipe binding.

I wasn't sure if I was going to order any of the new Kaffe line "from the archives" since I still had some pieces of the original fabrics. There were however 2 that I didn't have and 4 that I was ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , black and white , kaffe fabric

Finish #7 for December 2025............... from Exuberant Color

This quilt was made from a couple trays of plaid squares that were cut several years ago. I made 16 patch blocks and then went to the design wall for the layout. It is 39" x 47". It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it and was quilted on my Pfaff.

I had this cute farm print fabric that is on the back in my stash. The binding is a yarn dyed woven stripe.

I think the binding looks good with the fabrics on both sides of the quilt.

I had a dishcloth near a finish so I worked on ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , binding , knitting , plaids

A very good day...................... from Exuberant Color

My son came over yesterday morning to fix my 8 ft. burned out lights at the bottom of the basement stairs. He removed the ballast and then rewired it and now it takes the skinny LED 8 foot bulbs. He ended up staying another 2 hours helping with other things I can't do. I didn't eat lunch until 2:30 and didn't get around the the quilting on this plaid baby quilt until evening. The quilting is finished but I didn't want to go down to the basement to do the trimming or choose binding late ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , machine quilting , plaids

Basting and quilting...................... from Exuberant Color

After wrapping the Christmas gifts for the family party, I started basting this plaid baby quilt.

When I got home from the party at 8:30 last night I finished the basting and started the machine quilting on my Pfaff. I think I can get the rest of the quilting done today and trim and bind it.

They are predicting 57 degrees on Sunday and rain. It's just for one day before the frigid air gets here again.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , machine quilting

Finish #6 for December 2025........................ from Exuberant Color

I started the day yesterday making 3 batches of Chex Mix to take to the family party tonight. Late in the afternoon I worked on the quilting of this flannel tumbler baby quilt and finished the quilting last night. It is 39" square.

This photo is a little dark and I didn't have any luck trying to lighten it. The binding is the same fabric as the backing.

This is closer to the true color of the backing flannel. I used Hobbs 80/20 batting in the quilt.

Now I have 3 little flannel quilts made. I may be ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , flannel quilts

Prep day................ from Exuberant Color

A couple days ago I pieced batting and yesterday I cut it to size for this baby quilt. I just need to press the center crease out of the backing and then it can be basted and quilted.

I pieced another piece of batting large enough for this flannel tumbler baby quilt. I think it will be the next one to baste and quilt.

I needed to piece the batting for this one with white thread since there are all white backgrounds in the top. I found a piece of white Dream Cotton batting that I could use. I had ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts

Finish #5 for December 2025 from Exuberant Color

The binding was cut yesterday afternoon and last night I sewed it on, finished by machine. This little quilt is 30" x 39.25". It is flannel and in the Bullseye Log Cabin pattern. It has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it and I quilted it on my Pfaff.

It took only a one yard piece of flannel for the back of the quilt. The binding is a medium tan, darker than the light fabrics and lighter than the dark fabrics.

It was so dark yesterday morning that I had to move this cactus plant to the bathroom to take ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , christmas , flannel quilts , nature

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