a little quilt

I made this quilt last week for a baby shower gift for my good friend. I wanted to do something really simple, so it's just randomly arranged squares. I used mostly fabrics from the stash but added a few new novelty prints, like the kids doing science and the baby monsters and the camping animals.

I used wool batting, backed it with brown argyle flannel, and free-motion machine quilted it in a random meandering pattern in a single continuous line.

Just add baby!



And the whole thing flat.



I rounded the corners and apart from really liking the way it looks (and preventing baby eye-pokes) it made binding very simple to sew. I hate mitering.

F helped me with the layout; she got really focused and totally grasped the idea of random balance. It was fun to have a helper.