Liberty of London Baby Quilt and Pillow

Visiting London means for me visiting Liberty shop at the first place. The most wonderful shop! I love everything there, the atmosphere, the antique architecture, the products they sell and most of all the fabrics. I used fill my suitcase with Liberty of London fabrics! 

My last creations : a crib baby quilt and a cloud pillow.

I find the Liberty of London fabric perfectly well adapted for babies, due to its extreme softness. 

As well so elegant!

You can find those items and many others here : yayaCousette

Baby Liberty Quilt and Accessories

 Time flies... already more than a year since I last came to my blog!!!

For me, as for everybody, life was not easy lately... and all those events brought many changes in our way of life.

However good things also happened : I now have five wonderful grand children, four boys and a girl and I mainly sew for them and for the family newborns. There are so many pleasant projects to create for babys, and they are so quickly done! It's such a pleasure to have a quick result. Therefore I am not working on big quilts anymore. 

I did several baby quilts, and small items such as soft toys and bed accessories, as you can see on the above pictures.

Sewing makes us forget all (or almost) the troubles of life!! 😀

All those above items can be bought from my new Etsy shop yayaCousette : CLICK

Baby Quilt Finished

Being unable to spend hours and hours quilting as I used to do in the past, due to pains in the back, I just quilted this baby quilt with big stitches, following the sides of the small squares of the four patch blocks, using variegated colored threads. The final result is quite pleasant.

Four Patch Baby Quilt

Among my unfinished tops I picked what I called the Gypsy Four Patch top. I found it too messy to become a double size bed cover, definitely I did not like it. Sometimes I wonder why I insist when in doubt...  I remember that from the very beginning I was not sure of myself and instead of stopping I went on adding other fabric lines, as a consequence that the more I was advancing with this project, trying to improve it, the less I was satisfied. Final result : an abandoned top.

Wondering what to do with this top, it came to my mind that it could be nice as a baby quilt. So I cut it in four parts and started to quilt the first one. On a small scale it looks better and quite joyful though soft colors. Maybe the fabric design is not very kid's style? What is you opinion? Well, we shall see and if I am pleased with this first one I will go on with the three others...

Simone's Baby Quilt

After a very long absence from my blog, I am back with the last quilt I achieved.

It was a very easy and quick baby quilt to complete, though hand quilted. 

I started end of September and finished beginning of November, just in time before flying to Paris : 

last stitches the night before!

This quilt is a gift for my niece who decorated the bedroom of her future daughter using very soft colors. I first intended to sew a quilt using my beloved Liberty fabrics but, after I received the pictures of the wallpapers, I put them away and decided to try a new fabric selection.

Quite happy with it... the colors matched successfully! 

I love the atmosphere of this baby girl's room... definitely sweet romantic.

Those pictures were taken in Paris, three days before Simone's birth!

Herringbone Baby Quilt

Feeling so sorry for being late on my posting : these pictures were taken mid-september. Since then the quilt was achieved and delivered to my niece in Paris!

Before showing it completed, I wanted to share with you the progress of it and the hand quilting.

I hurried to finish it before leaving for Paris last month. The last stitch was sewn the night before flying, and the label sewn in Paris!

Next post will show this baby quilt finished and photographed in the future baby's room.

New Fabrics from USA

When my son came for holidays from Chicago he brought to me the fabrics I had ordered. I am so happy with them, they are gorgeous! And so grateful to my son for loading his suitcase with fabrics!

I have several projects... starting first with baby quilts for two babies : my first grand-daughter and my first grand nephew, both to be born next month!

I have done a selection of fabrics in the colors wished by my niece, and for this first baby quilt I have cut all the required half square triangles for a herringbone pattern.

Binding Baby Quilts

Some time ago, my dearest friend A. brought me a big piece of fabric left from the curtains of her granddaughters' bedroom. With it I sewed two little quilts and chose matching fabrics for the binding.

I prepared and sewed the binding this morning. I find the finished quilts very fresh and cute and I think the little twins' bedroom will be lovely.

You can find here my binding tutorial.

One Patch Baby Boy Quilt Tutorial from A to Z

Finished Size : 0.78 yards  x 1 yard

Required fabrics 

For the top :

1/2 yard printed fabric.

1/2 yard muslin or dotted white fabric.

 For the backing :

1.25 yard printed or dotted blue fabric. 

For the binding :

4" orange fabric

For the batting :

Wool Batting

For the Knots :

Embroidery white thread.

Cut both printed and white fabrics lenghwise in 5" stripes.
Then cut them in 5" x 5" squares.

Sew the printed and white squares together, right side against right side.
Make 8 rows of 6 units each.

Assemble the rows together.
Your top is done.

Cut your wool batting a little bigger than the top.

Cut your backing fabric the same size as the batting.

Baste and link with knots as shown HERE and HERE.

Bind your quilt as shown HERE and HERE