Baby Quilting

I make baby quilts for relaxation and to celebrate life.  I would love it if every baby born in the world would be welcomed with a special quilt just for him or her.  Since that is an impossible dream, I do what I can.  It is a creative process with me.  I love to work with fabrics and colors and puzzle through the best way to do it.

I have made enough quilts in recent years that I am getting good at it.  I make simple quilts of squares mainly the size of sticky notes.  It used to take about 8 or 9 months to finish a quilt, but I have gotten faster through practice.  I also recently switched to larger squares to finish a quilt in a hurry for a baby that was already born before I knew about her. She is the grandchild of a dear friend and I had to make a quilt fast. That was the first pink-y quilt.  I had extra squares of the large size so I am just now finishing another pink one.  I have written about not really caring for this quilt.

I have come to the realization that I am ready to step up to another level.  I need to work with design and work with (gasp!) triangles.  Actually, I have made quilts with triangles, but not recently.  I remember doing a lot of ripping out and doing over when I was working with triangles.  The last one I made like that was about 8 years ago. I know because the little girl I made it for with turn 8 in a few weeks.

I am going to finish up a couple of squares quilts I have in the works and then I am going to try a new thing.  I am going to work with colors and shapes. There may be some patterns and (gasp!) triangles.  But, coming up on the blog, I intend to show the method I use to make the quilts of squares (so that I can remember, if I decide to go back to that.)