My (almost) one-day quilt

The single girl quilts are finished! And they are fantastic. I could go on and on, but without photos I'm not going to. You'll have to wait, but not long. A photoshoot is in the works.

In the meantime, I'm going to tell you about a different quilt that I started yesterday. And that I finished today. And that could have been finished yesterday if I was so crazy-tired by 9:30 p.m., leaving the hand sewing portion of binding until this morning. Yes. A quilt in almost one day.

This is a baby gift for a dear friend who had her second girl last month.  I had so much fun making Liam's quilt, that I decided to make another, much pinker one, for this sweet baby.

All of the fabrics came from the stash. EVERY ONE. I even pieced two large batting scraps so I could make the entire thing from materials I had on hand. That felt good. Scratch that. It felt great! All the pinks came out of the scrap buckets and the backing is a 60" wide pink gingham that has been hanging around for a couple years at least. I made some dresses out of it when the girls were little and this was the left over bit. And it was *just* big enough.  The white is Kona cotton in Snow - my new favorite white because it's not harshly bright and not too yellow so it blends beautifully.

I pieced the letters using the Proverbial Quilt pattern by Denyse Schmidt.  I traced the templates onto freezer paper, cut them out and ironed them to my fabrics. This made adding the 1/4" seam allowance super easy - I lined the 1/4" mark on the ruler up with the straight edge of the freezer paper and cut. I also layered 2 fabrics for each piece as I need 2 of each of the letters.  Again, fast.  And bonus - those freezer paper pieces can be used again so I tucked them into an envelope and put that with the pattern.  I added big rectangles of solid above and below the name to get it to the size I wanted (about 40" x 50").  The loopy quilting was done freehand after I marked horizontal lines 3" apart as a guide.

Start to finish, I think it took about 6 or 7 hours.  Perfect for a baby gift.  And probably my new go-to baby gift if I have that kind of time.