Completed Present/Project: Green and Purple Baby Quilt

Ta-da! It's finally done! (And several days before my September 1st deadline!)
And it is... a baby quilt! Adam's cousin recently (very recently) had a baby girl, and this is going to be her welcome-to-life present! Adam's mother picked out the fabrics to coordinate with the bedding already chosen, and asked me to stitch it up. And now I'm finally finished!


I cheated a little bit and used pre-made satin binding to bind the quilt instead of making my own pieced binding. But I actually think it looks nicer this way - the dark purple coordinates with the purple fabrics, and the satin binding adds another nice texture to the quilt. I machine-stitched the binding, which I'm not 100% happy with, but at least this way I know it's sturdy and strong and ready to endure some abuse by baby. I had originally hand-stitched one side of the the quilt, but wasn't happy with how it felt.


It's not a perfect quilt, but what quilt ever is perfect? It's cute and appropriate for this new baby girl. And I'm proud of myself for completing it and learning to do free-motion quilting in the process! And I got to use the first of my new labels.

WIP: Quilting Done!

Last night, I finally finished quilting the purple and green baby quilt. Look at how many safety pins I used to pin it together! Stopping to take them all out as I was quilting was a pain, but was worth it to have a nicely-basted quilt. Of course, I had also used the spray basting, but I didn't trust that alone.
Next step... binding the quilt. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to hand stitch or machine stitch the binding. Hand stitching would look nicer, but I'm afraid it won't be as strong.

WIP: Quilting Almost Done!

Whoo-hoo! I'm 3/4 of the way done with the free-motion quilting, and I've run through 3.5 bobbins of thread so far - this is the only reason I stopped. I'm determined to get this done tonight! My poor neighbors... I hope they can't hear my sewing machine roaring away.
Now the next question is... how am I going to bind it?