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

Mallard Duck Crochet

Hello dear followers! Not much quilting recently due to health problems... 

I present you my new hobby : crochet for my grand children. My crochet soft toys had so much success in the family that I decided to crochet as well for my etsy shop. 

So happy for being rewarded and becoming Top Seller!!

You can find all my creations at 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

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!

Cable Stitch Baby Cardigan Finished!

The baby alpaga jacket is finished and already worn by my grandson M. I am pleased with the final look and most of all with the fact that it keeps the baby very warm!

In my tote I have a new knitting project. About this bag on the last photo, which you have already seen in previous posts, I did it using this pattern : The Twenty Minute Tote. I did many of such bags for presents, using Kokka fabrics and it really doesn't take more than 20 minutes to make one!

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

Baby Knitted Cardigan and Double 4 Patch Progress

 

After I finished my shawl, I started knitting a little cardigan for my grandson. I found the pattern in a vintage catalogue from my mother. I already used several patterns from this catalogue for my own children about 35 years ago. I love to knit cable stitch, it's so easy and gives an impressive result. The yarn is baby alpaga.

Most of the time I knit very early in the morning together with drinking my tea. Then comes coffee time and quilting... well, in between a little housework! 

I am finishing the last six blocks of my Double Four Patch top. After this, I will prepare the tutorial as promised!

Baby Stroller Mattress

Few days ago, as my daughter came for a visit, I decided that my grandson was not comfortable enough in his stroller and I thought that this situation could not last one minute more! I went and fetch my Birch Organic fabric stash and proposed it to my daughter who chose this cut elephant print.
No sooner said than done!

To do this mattress, I just sewed an enveloppe and put inside five layers of batting. This process took less than 10 minutes! This sweet baby will feel now more cozy and I think that this orange color gives a cheerful touch to the stroller.  The mattress has a second use : after moving the baby from the stroller to his car seat, we put it on him as a small quilt!

Baby Crib Bumper

Yesterday early in the morning I decided not to start my day with any housework, but instead to sew the baby bumper for my grandson. It took me less than one hour to achieve it. I took pictures step by step and in my next post I will write the tutorial : I thought it may help beginners to do it the simplest way.

I brought this bumper to my daughter who was pleased to get it at last and we fixed it in the crib. Baby seems to enjoy it... not for long as he is growing so fast that we shall have to buy a bigger bed soon... and to sew a new bumper!

Baby received many beautiful presents as this Beatrix Potter porcelain tableware, and this cute elephant matching perfectly with the quilt I offered my daughter last summer.

Crib Bumper Project

My second grandson is already two month old and I did not manage to sew either his bumper, or his baby quilt... too much work and visitors during the Christmas holidays.. and after! I will try to start these days. First step I decided for the fabrics : the mushroom fabric will be for the crib bumper and the grey ones for the quilt. (My daughter's choice).