Sunday, August 29, 2010

Pinwheel Baby Quilt

I've been busy the last couple of weeks.  My sister, Patti, is a brand new grandma as Kingston Quin Ball was born July 16.  Today, I finished a baby quilt for this new addition.


This was a kit from Connecting Threads.  I was so excited to get started on this one that either the instructions were confusing or I read them wrong.  I prefer to think it was the instructions...anyway, I cut the cream fabric wrong, ruined a bunch of it and had to reorder.  One of these days, I will learn to take a deep breath, read the instructions at least twice, before I even pick up the rotary cutter.

With this pattern, the pinwheels are actually prairie points and they are not sewed down but left to flap in the breeze so that baby can play with them.  So I could not put this one on the frame because I had to sew around the prairie points.  I also stitched in the ditch, which I HATE to do because I don't do it very well.  Why on earth did I not do an outline stitch???  Would have been lots less frustrating.


I'm glad it's done and I think it turned out well.  I hope Kingston and his new parents like it.  Congratulations!

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