Baby Gifts

My favorite baby gift is still a quilted flannel blanket that finishes about 40 x 50 inches.  I had a lot of friends who were having babies during the summer so I quickly finished up a pile of baby blankets.  

My 60 inch wide wool pressing mat got a good workout.  After pressing the flannel I pieced together batting scraps and quilted them on the long arm.  It felt great to use up all that leftover batting. Once the flannel is quilted you can't even tell that the batting was pieced.  

 All nine of the blankets were finished at the end of May and beginning of June.  Then my studio needed a good cleaning.  

It is always nice to reset after a big project.  All nine have been gifted so I ended up having to make another in the fall.  

I still have more flannel I need to use so I can have some gifts ready made. 

XX,

Jasmine

Projects for the Girls

The girls didn't need new quilts.  They loved their quilts they got for Christmas 2019.  

They are great to play on and have princess tea parties.  

However, they still needed something mommy made just for them.  I decided to use up some minky I bought before Kitty was born.  

Some pink minky became a fuzzy blanket.  

 

Made just for Kitty.  

Although her favorite blanket is still the double sided hot pink minky.  (Also bought before she was born.  All I had to do was cut it to size and vacuum up the fluff.)

Some purple minky became a pillow case using my minky pillow case tutorial.  

Made just for Bunny and looking darling on her bed.  

Then once the Bernina Q24 came back from being serviced, I decided to quilt a flannel blanket for Kitty.  

The machine worked great!

This little quilt is actually used as a rug in Kitty's bedroom.  It looks so cute on the floor.

The girls' rooms look so beautiful in pink and purple.  It is everything I dreamed of when I thought of having daughters.  

The only problem is that Bunny's favorite color is pink and Kitty's favorite color is definitely orange.  Looks like I need to keep making quilts and other quilty projects for them.

XX,

Jasmine

Handmade for Bunny

The first item I made for Bunny after she joined our family was this cute crocheted doll blanket.  It is much smaller than the ladybug one I crocheted for a baby girl when Cheetah was little.

Good thing the ladybug blanket is finally getting some use. It was in my cedar chest for years.  It works well for bigger dolls.

My little girl plays so differently than her brothers did at the same age.  :)

Early this year I made her a minky blanket.

It might not be the most girly, but both pieces were in my minky stash and Bunny loves how fuzzy it is.  It looks good on the rocking chair in her room. 

I also made a quilt/weighted blanket for Bunny.  It has pink minky on the back and poly pellets inside each quilted square.  It is soft and soothing.

I followed the Charming Stripes tutorial I made while Cheetah was working on his eagle project for strip piecing the top.  I used Rob Appell's YouTube tutorial for adding the pellets.  Now my sons are asking for weighted blankets.  It wasn't super difficult, it was just very meticulous to quilt the rows without hitting any pellets with the needle.

It looks really cute in her toddler bed. 

Her room is coming together.  :)

The princess quilt on her wall may or may not be one I originally made to donate and then decided to keep.  I'm glad I decided to keep it now. 

I look forward to making more handmade gifts for my family.  (I just don't feel like wrestling another weighted blanket yet.)

XX,
Jasmine

Ten Baby Blankets

My favorite baby gift is still a quilted flannel blanket.  I have made ten recently and still have more to make.  Good thing I have a large baby flannel stash. 

The first two sets (two of each) were quilted on the Bernina Q24 and have a separate binding. 

The next three sets all used batting leftovers that were zig-zagged together.  They were sewn together using this method.  I quilted them on my Tiara. 

These might not be as fun to see, but they were fun to make. 

XX,
Jasmine

September Decor and More

I was enjoying the red, white, and blue decorations so much that I just barely switched them around. I love how the red, orange, and yellow combination brightens up my great room.

I realized that I don't have anything else in that color combination.  So I pulled out my old lace table topper.  My mom always used one just like it on this table when I was growing up.  It brings back lots of memories.

Although, it makes me want to stop everything and make something red, orange, and yellow.  ;)

I do have a back to school quilt which I hung.

It is sweet, but not as bright.

Most of what little sewing time I had this summer went to making baby gifts.  Here are ten more, mostly for baby boys.  They aren't quite as interesting as quilts.  ;)

Two were quilted by my mom on the Bernina Q24 and eight were quilted by me with my Baby Lock Tiara.  They all have Hobbs 80/20 batting.  Half were Franken-Batts.  It felt good to use up batting scraps.

I did all of the bindings.

Now I need to go deliver them.

I often wonder if I should simplify my baby gifts, but then I always go back to these sweet little flannel quilts that are about 42 by 54 inches.  They are fun to make.

XX,
Jasmine

Bindings Galore

I mentioned in a previous post that my pile of unbound baby blankets was growing.  I had four at the time which were all quilted with the Q-matic on the Bernina Q24.

My pile doubled in size before I started on the bindings.

Two of the boy blankets (on the left) were quilted free-motion to try new types of thread.  Two were quilted with the Q-matic (on the right).  It took about half of the time to free-motion quilt them than for the computer to quilt them.  However, I can't free-motion quilt such cute lizards or such perfect squares and rectangles.  I definitely think that both types of quilting have their place.

I think there is a reason why I usually work on one quilt at a time.  Binding eight quilts at once wasn't nearly as much fun as quilting them!

I have already used the computerized boxy meander design on my nephew's quilt.  Hopefully life will get a little less crazy and I will have more time for blogging and playing in my studio.

XX,
Jasmine