Quilt for New Nephew

Love those colors!

The newest member of our family is due this November. To welcome him to the family, his aunt's and grandma made him a quilt. Marlene and Carolyn started us off by picking a pattern and fabric. Carolyn picked the blue background and Marlene cut a selection of circle pieces from her fabric stash. She did a great job fussy-cutting cartoon animals and scenery. After a trip to MN this fall, I brought home the cut pieces and the templates. More background pieces were needed and I added a few circle pieces from my collection.

These came in handy

I did the piecing on my Bernina 1120. It took a couple podcasts to put it all together, but M and C did a good job estimating the finished size and I didn't have to add anything to it.

Just starting out, waiting to be pressed

Playing around with placement

One more column to piece

Final arrangement

For the basting, I took the top over to Grandma's house and we found batting and a backing in her stash.

Blue for the backing

While we were basting, we had time to study the variety of fabrics and talk through some of the stories associated with them. There are fabrics that have been around for 4 decades and ones that were purchased in the last couple years. I don't think baby will get tired of looking at all of the different designs and colors.

Polka-dots and elephants

Ducks and owls

Monsters, chickens, and an estate sale find

Elephants, dragons, and cats

Bees, flowers, chefs

Basting complete

Marlene suggested a fan pattern for the quilting and Grandma did all the quilting and binding. We had fun making this quilt and we look forward to sharing it with our nephew and grandson soon.