My first quilt…

A close friend recently had her first baby, and I wanted to make her something extra special for her new lil’ girl. I decided to attempt my first quilt.

Now I have to say that I’ve always been a lil’ intimidated by quilting. All those pieces to cut out, all those exact seam allowances to sew, and need I say….mitered corners?! But since baby quilts are half the size of regular ones, I figured it was worth a shot.

I picked up a kit at my local JoAnns store with gorgeous green & brown fabrics and some soft bamboo batting to use as the filler. The binding wasn’t nearly as difficult as I anticipated once I found this great tutorial by Heather Bailey. If you have any interest in quilting – these are really helpful instructions. (You get some great eye-candy on Heather’s site too.)

I sent the quilt off and later found out that the colors exactly matched the color scheme of her new nursery. Yea! I think I might have the quilting bug now.

A neighbor commissioned me to make a baby quilt for her sister-in-law, and I decided to make a third quilt just for fun. Stay tuned for those projects later this week…