Quilts for Babies

I made this quilt for my baby daughter last for Christmas 2011. It is made using the gorgeous 1001 peeps fabric designed by Lizzy House, using Kate Conklin’s fussy cut fairytales pattern. It’s quilted using an all over echo shell pattern. My daughter loves it!

Quilt size: width: 55" height: 65"

I created this quilt for the newest member of our family David Michael Platt born on January 31, 2012 to Justin and Amanda Platt. The fabric is awesome with bugs, trees, birds, dogs and playgrounds just everything a little boy needs to begin using his imagination.

Quilt size: width: 38" height: 60"

Playing with a few charm squares that were left over from another quilt, and wanting to have space to practice some free motion feathers, I came up with this design and layout. I love the crispness of the grey and white with the small hits of colour, and am really happy with the quilting.

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"

I made this as a sample for a class I taught on piecing the alphabet. I used fabrics such as a boat print for B, elephant fabric for E, northern lights for N, zebra fabric for Z, etc. The border fabric looks like a blackboard with white letters and numbers on it.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 50"

This was made for my friend’s first grandchild – we have been freinds for over 50 years(!!! ) since we started school together and have laughed and cried over many cups of coffee.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 30"

This was made with thirties blue fabrics and traditional fabrics. It was one of my first quilts, pieced and quilted by myself.

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54"

I made this little quilt as a gift for my niece…she loved the bright colours. And I loved the giraffe!!

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 45"

Made for my baby girl born on November 2010. I was working on this quilt when I went she finnaly decided to come to meet me. I guess she wanted to see it! Then I just got to finish it when she was 3 months!

Quilt size: width: 35" height: 47"

My grandsons were taught baby sign language. When the 3rd one came along I saw the Baby Talk line of fabric from Elizabeth’s Studio and knew this was the perfect fabric for his quilt

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"

I saw Beary Patch in a magazine – and just had to make it!
Friends helped with brown & beige scraps.
When it was done I kept looking for the right recipient and heard that Lina was born.
It was a perfect match with a Pink-Brown nursery and I hear the quilt is being used daily!

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 50"

Great Gramma Lora had me make this quilt for her newest great grandson from a pattern she had had for YEARS! Old fashioned, but way cute!

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 60"

All of my friends are having babies . . . and they’re all boys! I made this quilt for my best friend’s new baby boy out of my scrap stash. I wanted it to be bright, fun, and not too babyish—and definitely look like a boy!

Quilt size: width: 36.5" height: 36.5"

These UFO blocks from 2002, were bordered to make them all the same size. then assembled into a quilt for my 9th grandchild, Willa Rose. Intended for everyday use, it is to “catch” her sleeping, rolling over, playing peek-a-boo and reading. Made by her Nana, who “caught” her when she was born!

Quilt size: width: 52" height: 52"

One of my best friends was expecting her 1st baby, so when she picked the colors for the nursery, I designed this quilt based on the fabrics she had chosen for the bedding… and anyone who knows me knows I love circles, so I was stoked! :) So happy they can enjoy this quilt for years to come! :)

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 38"

I made this quilt for my oldest grandson using a design by Brandywine Designs. I machine appliqued it using a satin stitch. It was a fun and challenging quilt. I was able to make it almost completely from my stash.

Quilt size: width: 51" height: 56.5"

I made this for one of my nieces in CO. Her husband is in the Army, in Afghanistan, hence the Army Star, with taggy pinwheels. This is one of 6 I have made this year. This was machine pieced and quilted.

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 60"

This pattern was featured in Quiltmaker Magazine last year.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 50"

In Switzerland we have an association that collect baby quilts to bring to the hospital for prenat babies. The parents can choose one that will be put on the “baby aquarium”and when they can go home with the baby, they can take the quilt!
That is one baby quilt I made for that association.

Quilt size: width: 33" height: 40"

This is a Fat Quarter Quilt. I have made a few of these already, and it is super easy. The pattern name is “Sweet Baby Quilt” and I found it in “Sew Special Fat Quarter Gifts” book. Ethan’s Mother was thrilled with it, she loved the colors. I even managed to quilt it myslef, nothing fancy.

Quilt size: width: 32" height: 37"

Fit For a Princess is the 3rd quilt I’ve made from start to finish myself. I designed my own pantograph so I could hand guide my machine to make the spirals. You can find details in my blog post entitled All’s Well That Ends Well. It was difficult to get the spirals the correct size! But I had fun!!

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 51"

This quilt was made for my newest nephew Silas.

Quilt size: width: 31" height: 36"

I made this quilt for my daughters best friends who have just had their first much awaited and wanted baby girl.

Quilt size: width: 37" height: 40.5"

This alphabet quilt was made for my youngest grandchild before it was known she would be a girl. I selected a green gingham for the border and appliqued the animals of the oriental zodiac running around it, with the ox in the middle as she was an ox-year baby.

Quilt size: width: 57.5" height: 79"

My guild donates quilts monthly to area hospitals for their NICU’s under the name of Loving Hands. I pledged 2 little quilts each month & this is 1 of my March quilts. These quilts cover the isolettes & are for the family members to use when holding the baby & then are sent home with them.

Quilt size: width: 32" height: 32"

The Sock Monkey pattern was a free download from Moda. I saw it several years ago. I have a granddaughter with the nickname “Monkey” by her Dad. So this was appliqued, pieced and quilted by me for her.

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 68"

A friend wanted an original quilt for her soon-to-be- grand-daughter, with a Winnie the Pooh theme. The bear is made of cuddly fabric and is reverse appliqued onto the quilt.

Quilt size: width: 28" height: 52"

I like bright modern prints and have this pattern that uses 5 fat quarters and a bit of yardage. I made the top and searched for a flannel backing and found the elephants – the two looked as if they were made for each other. Finished envelope style and a bit of stitching in the ditch finishes.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40"

A quilt for little Sebastiaan, in green, the favorite colour of the parents.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40"

This embroidered insert quilt uses one of the RAG design sets from Hatched in Africa. All the sashing and border pieces are 2 1/2 inch strips with no strip wider than the standard width of the fabric.

Quilt size: width: 37.5" height: 45"

Made/quilted by me in 2011 for my great nephew Rio, it uses Moda Lily & Will and Nancy Halvorsen’s Art to Heart book. It uses patchwork, applique and stitcheries – great fun to do. It is freemotion quilted. Rio is the first child of our page boy from 22 years ago so he is very special and adorable.

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 60"

I designed this quilt with a sleeping baby in mind. The teddy bears are appliques on and the rest of the quilt is pieced. I had a hard time coming up with the colors I wanted in the quilts, but finally settled with what is in the picture.

Quilt size: width: 42" height: 63"

I made this quilt for a baby in our family. I wanted to make one of similar size to the one I had made for his cousin and in order to make it purely from stash fabric based it on the Stacked Coins baby quilt.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40"

I made as a shop sample to display some new fabric and to practice my quilting.
I had always wanted to try Marti Michele’s Kaleidoscope ruler and it worked really great, I have made others since this one. I love rick rack on a baby quilt so it was fun to use it on this one in the first border.

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48"

A customer had her first child and had to fight for his life for the first 6 weeks. She named him Laith, which means lion. So I made her a quilt ” The lil Lion that Roared” he is doing great now. When she seen the quilt, she told me it matched his room exactly! Guess it was meant to be!

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 48"

These are my favourite colours and was a fun quilt to make. Hope their baby girl, due next month, loves it as much as us!

Quilt size: width: 52" height: 38"

I bought this kit 3 years ago and started making it, then stuffed it into a drawer because life happened. When I found out my sister-in-law was having a baby I pulled it back out and finished it up for her. I hope my nephew will love it! Another UFO bites the dust and another baby stays warm!

Quilt size: width: 58" height: 72"