Thursday, February 25, 2010

Baby Blocks


(the avacado table cloth in the background is not doing these colors any favors)
I am calling this quilt Baby Blocks. It is aprox 42 x50 all washed up. The backing is MM Dainty Damask. I love this fabric! I got to use one of my new labels on this quilt, the first one!

I started this in November and got the top done but then stalled out with distraction from Christmas projects. I then got panicked because my last binding was icky and didn't want to move forward till I figures out how to improve that. I surfed around and read/watched all the binding tutorials I could find and picked up a couple different techniques. I ended up doing it almost exactly as demonstrated by Red Pepper Quilts tutorial and am very happy with it.




I am sharing this for Friday Sew & Tell. Be sure to head over there and check out all the other great projects people did this week.

29 comments:

  1. What a great quilt...lucky baby!

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  2. This is sew much fun! I love the colors and the binding is perfect for the blocks!

    Great Friday Finish!

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  3. Great colors! Even your label is cool. I am the WORST at binding. I had to put Old Red Barn's tutorial on my blog because I couldn't find it for hours one day. Grrr. Your binding looks fantastic. :)

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  4. Wow, I love the colors with these simple blocks. Fantastic.

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  5. Gorgeous blues and greens! And what a label! Love it!

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  6. Diane,

    Adorable - I love those greens!!!

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  7. LUV the quilt Diane.

    How did you do your label? I have done mine in the past with stitch witch and ironed it on and then hand stitched around the label. I'm just curious.

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  8. I love this! I think I want to use this to make a fabric with my girl chirp fabric. Did you use a tutorial, a pattern, or did you just wing it?

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  9. so beautiful! I love it. Love the backing & binding fabric you chose.

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  10. I actually liked the avocado colour against the others:-)
    Lovely quilt, perfect machine made binding (I have to try that some time) and darling label. Did you have them printed out for you?

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  11. That is too cute! I'm so in love with white and (insert color here)quilts lately..

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  12. There is something about blue and green that just make a quilt pop! Yours came out so pretty and worth the effort. Great job Diane!

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  13. That is such a lovely quilt. How good is that machine binding that Rita did a tutortial on. It really gives a good finish.

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  14. Diane, the colors make this quilt so beautiful! Great job on the binding as well. I like your new labels! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. I love this! I'm trying to figure out a pattern for my baby's quilt. This would be cute! Thanks for linking up!

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  16. I love this, it is so cute! Love those squares. I would love to make a quilt like this.

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  17. This is so lovely! I too like the blue-green color combo ... love the simple design.

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  18. Wonderful quilt! Everything just works together so well in this.

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  19. Gorgeous quilt! I love the colors, so fresh and clean. It took me a while to get the whole "binding thing" down. Yours looks great!

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  20. Great baby quilt! Love those greens.
    Blessings,
    KT

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  21. It turned out so well! And I love the dainty damask back!

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  22. So cute! The fabrics are fabulous.

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  23. I love this! The fabrics are gorgeous and the white frames them out perfectly! Thanks for sharing!

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  24. Love it and I really like how you do something extra on the backs of your quilts.
    I am going to check out that binding link. I still need to put binding on my quilt show quilt.

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  25. Loving these quilts!

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