Easy On Point Baby Quilt with free pattern

One day at church I saw a baby that I hadn't made a quilt for - oh my! His mother had just started to coming to church, but I didn't want to leave out this baby, so I stuck him in to my baby quilt line-up. I need to get another one started this week, but this baby is several months old, so I didn't want him to have to wait. 

I just wanted to make something a little different from the baby quilts I've been putting out, so I decided to make an on-point quilt. I like the way they look, and they really aren't much more difficult than a quilt that isn't on-point. Especially if the measurements are already done for you

Meet Damir! Isn't he adorable and happy? I think maybe he likes it, ha ha. 

So, it's all here if you want a quilt that's 39 inches square. Here is the link to the pattern, just from my google drive account: On Point Baby Quilt. It's free, no need to give me your email address or anything. I just thought that if I go to the bother to draw it up, I might as well share it. ⌣

The pattern includes several links to pages where they explain how to sew it together, in case you need more instruction than I provide. 

Happy sewing! 🧵

Simple Strip Square Baby Quilt with free pattern

 Another baby boy is coming - I have quite a few scraps piling up, so I decided it was time to make a quilt with some of the strips of fabric I had left from various quilts. It went together very quickly.

I'm sure there are many out there who have the "gift" and they would have put these strips together differently, and then these blocks wouldn't look like they were made up out of scraps, but that these fabrics had been carefully chosen - but after a little of playing with fabric I decided to just get to work sewing the blocks together.

I'm not sure why exactly, but something about making a quilt out of scraps feels virtuous. Is it just me? Somehow I feel like I'm eco friendly or being extra smart and thrifty or something. OK, it's probably just me, ha ha! But I like how it turned out. It's colorful and fun and used up a bunch of things that were making me feel guilty for buying more fabric... Maybe it's not virtuous at all - it just makes me feel good because now I can go back to the fabric store!

If you would like the pattern, it's free. You don't have to give me your email address or subscribe or any of that. I just figured I will be able to find it again if I put it on my blog, and why not share it if anyone would like it. Here is the link to the pattern: Strip Square Baby Quilt. 

Have a great day! 🧵

Quick Baby 4 Patch Quilt and free pattern

I found out there were two more babies that I wanted to make quilts for. When I tried to find out the gender, one of the parents said she was keeping it a secret - what to do? That helps me to choose my fabric!

The other parent said they were expecting a boy, so I went to my stash and found some nautical fabric that I have used before, but I bought several yards, so it keeps popping up in my quilts. I still have more, so you will see it again!

These 4 Patch quilts are quick to put together. I don't have much time, but I really want to make the quilts, so I just have to do it as quickly as I can.

In my stash I had a little of this fabric with bees - so cute! I decided to use it as the color scheme and made do with other fabric that I had on hand. I like how it turned out, even if it isn't what I would have used if I had a quilt fabric store handy.

I think it is a good neutral quilt - it turned out to be a baby boy. Since I was making these quilts at the same time I just used the same pattern for each of them.

If you would like the pattern, this is a link to my google drive. You don't have to give me your email address, you don't have to subscribe to anything. The pattern is there, if you want it, take it. :)

Quick Baby 4 Patch Pattern

Cute Baby 3 Rail Fence and Free Pattern

I made another Rail Fence quilt - I just like the look of them. I think this fabric is so cute too. I did bring this fabric to the Baltics from the US. I don't know if it's just the area I live in in the US, but there are so many little shops that specialize in quilt fabrics! I love all the choices there. I will be home in July, so I might go crazy when I get to a quilt fabric store, ha ha. I should at least wait until I have a sewing room and all the necessities! 

I just love how bright and happy this quilt looks! I hope they love it!

Here is a link to the pattern, no subscription or giving me your email address necessary. This link is probably easier to read than the pattern below.

Baby 3 Rail Fence Quilt

Sailor Baby Quilt

 Hello again - wow, time flies! I just realized I haven't posted my last few quilts, so here is one of them. I found some nautical themed quilt fabrics - finding quilt fabric in the Baltics is difficult, so I bought a bunch of different ones that I can piece together into different quilts, hopefully making the patterns enough different that friends won't feel like they got the same quilt as someone else. :) 

And yes, I saw it after it would have been too much work to change it. Oh well. :D

Simple Strips Baby Quilt

 

These two quilts are from a few months ago, but I'm finally getting it up here. Sometimes I find out (after a baby is born!) that I need to throw together something quick, so this is it! Quick, easy, no pattern necessary! It can totally be adjusted to accommodate whatever fabric you have on hand.

This little cutie looks so adorable on her lady bug quilt! I love this fabric! I found a fabric store in Vilnius, Lithuania that is HUGE. It even has a small section with quilting fabrics. Not a big selection, but I found this ladybug print there - you will probably see it again...

I think the sun was a little bright this day, but big sister looks proud to get to hold the baby!

Here is the baby boy version. You will be seeing this fabric again, too. I'll just try to keep these people from ever meeting up - except I don't know the people who have this one. It was delivered (I was told) but I haven't met the baby or the parents or heard anything since. I will just assume it is loved and they don't know how to tell me. :)

I do know the baby's name though! It's a little hard to read on this busy fabric, but it's "Dominiks".

Maislee's Pinwheel

 Good grief! How have I not posted since March? It's certainly not because there haven't been any babies born. Life is busy - you know how it is! The most wonderful part is a new granddaughter! Adorable little girls are so fun to make quilts for!

 Here is a pinwheel quilt I made for her. I don't have as much time as I would like for quilting, so I decided to simplify my life and put a shashing between the blocks so I wouldn't have bulky seams I was trying to match up.

Here she is - look at those big beautiful blue eyes! I can just tell that she loves my quilt...

Her sister likes the quilt too, and wanted to get in on the pictures. Little Maislee looks so much like her big sister - they are twins born 7 years apart!

Here is the back. I really don't want someone to look at it years from now and say - "Who made this, anyway?". I wonder if they will know who "Gramsie" is...

What a difference a few months makes! Here she is on the quilt again with a big happy smile!

This is grandbaby #11!

Nautical Baby Boy Quilt

Another new baby in our midst, so I did what I love to do and made another quilt. I know it's such a simple pattern, but I don't have much time and I still want to make one! Thank goodness for a fabric store we found in Lithuania that has some quilt fabric! Not a lot, but some!

I decided to go nautical - because that was one of my choices of fabric and I thought it was cute.

I figure the baby really doesn't care and the parents are happy that someone made something for their baby. It's a win-win since I wanted to make a quilt!

Isn't this a cute little guy? He's adorable. I haven't seen him in person yet, but hopefully it won't be too long. He comes from a family of adorable humans, so this is no surprise!

Kind of hard to see my label, aargh! This is for little Hairams, the Latvian version of Hyrum.

Rail Fence for a Baby Girl

 Hello again! My daughter sent me some fabric for Christmas, and then I found out someone in our church group was having a baby girl - what a perfect way to use this fabric! I love how it turned out! 

I actually don't know the people it is for, ha ha. With the government restrictions for Covid, people who haven't been vaccinated haven't been able to attend church meetings in person, so they join us on Zoom. We attend so many different branches throughout our mission boundaries, I'm still trying to get to know everyone! I'm so glad a friend told me about this baby, or I might have missed her - and I would hate to skip a baby that I can make a quilt for!

Isn't she adorable?

Girly Baby Quilt

 I realized that someone who lives in Liepaja is having a baby, so I asked if she knew whether it was a boy or girl so I could make a quilt. When she found out it was a girl she said - Please NO PINK! I guess she has a thing about not pink. I did my best.

I brought this fabric with me from the US. I have not yet found a store that specializes in quilting fabrics here. I guess that isn't a thing - no wonder why when I give them away they act like it's a work of art. I've never felt like such an amazing quilter - there is no one around to compare my puny skills to!

I managed to not put pink on a baby girl quilt, which went against everything in my nature, but I think it still managed to be girly enough to satisfy me.

Baby Quilts - Plan Ahead!

 As we were getting ready to leave for our mission to Latvia, knowing that we were going to be gone for 3 years, I decided to plan ahead and make baby quilts! I was hoping that I would be getting more grandchildren while we were gone, but I would never want to deprive them of their baby quilt from Gramsie - that would NEVER do! So I decided to make quilts ahead of time and put my daughter-in-law in charge of them so she could make sure any new babies in the family got a quilt. 

She happened to be expecting a girl, so the first quilt was for her baby. I love how it turned out, and it was able to use scraps I had left over from previous quilts, I don't think I bought any new fabric for this quilt. That is a rarity for me.

I was trying to get all packed up since we were putting everything from our house into storage, so using scraps seemed like a good idea. Of course, it has my label on the back.

I am so grateful for creative people! I saw a picture on Pinterest of a quilt like this, but no link to the pattern, so I made my own.

I decided to make a simple pattern for a quilt that would be quick to put together. I love the colors of this quilt! It turned out great! I'm happy with the results. 

A few years from now I wouldn't want anyone to say, "Where did this quilt come from? Who made it?". And of course I want some little child to see the heart and know that Gramsie loves them.

Isn't this an adorable pattern? I first saw it when one of the ladies in our Tuesday Quilt group made one, and I fell in love! You can find the Giraffes in a Row pattern here. 

I love polka dots, so the background and the back of the quilt are little dots. I just love how this quilt turned out, and it's been snatched up already! My daughter was expecting and when she saw this one she claimed it for her baby. 

And last but not least, another quilt made from the same pattern as the aqua one above. Except for the first one that is pink and was claimed before I got started on the rest, all these quilts are  baby neutral. I didn't want to worry about whether my quilts would be appropriate for whatever kind of baby we get!

This quilt reminds me of Legos, a favorite toy of all children, I think. I can't wait to have more grandchildren and see who it goes to! What fun!

I love making baby quilts. Not just because I love having grandchildren, but they are cute, easy to quilt, and there are so many adorable patterns out there. I have a finished baby quilt on my table and another that I'm working on next to my sewing machine. I think all babies should have at least one quilt. 💗

Little Dino

 I made this Little Dino quilt for a family I know that recently had a baby boy. There is a serious lack of quilting fabric here! There are quite a few little fabric shops but they are all for clothing. I guess no one quilts here? Every time I give someone a quilt they look astounded. 

When I went looking for fabric I found one store that had about 20 bolts of quilting cotton. So...that's why I made a dinosaur quilt. Two of those bolts were of dinosaur fabric, and that was the cutest thing I could find. When it was finished though, I was a little disappointed. Sometimes what I see in my head isn't what actually what I end up with.

I decided to go back and FMQ a dinosaur inside each of the dark blue rectangles. I found some coloring book pages online, printed out about 5 different little dinosaurs, then traced them onto the quilt and sewed them in. Here is a close up of one.

I made a label - this is for the Green family. They named their son Forest - Green. Of course, now I'm thinking of names for their future children: Hunter, Kelly, Jade, Emerald and I can think of several that I hope they won't use. I hope they don't have so many children that they run out of the "good" Green names, ha ha!

 A Singer Car?

I don't know where this came from or who made it, but my daughter sent me this picture and asked me if it was my next car. This is awesome - but I'd still just spend that money on a nice sewing machine! :D

Riga, Bugs Life Baby Quilt

So - before Covid we committed to sell our house because my husband was going to be the President of the Baltic Mission. So, to make a long story less long, we sold our home and then couldn't get to our mission because of the pandemic, we lived with friends or in hotels for months, and then we finally made it to our mission 9 months late. Whew. So, we have been here for almost 2 months. We received all the things we stored to ship to Latvia, so I have my Bernina! A very nice lady I met just had a baby last week, so I'm making a baby quilt. That was actually a pretty short story!

There was a little sewing machine here with some notions and some fabric, so I adopted some cute bug fabric and put it with some fabric I had in my shipment and made a boy baby quilt. I have the top finished, hopefully I will get it quilted and bound this week.

Some of the fun is missing though - I don't have any quilty friends here! No one to point out how perfectly the corners in my four-patches come together. No body to say, "Hey, all your little bug squares are right side up!". You know, things quilty friends say and it makes you feel good.

My Quilting Queen friend would notice all those little things, but wouldn't mention anything I didn't do well. Of course, I would point those out to her, in case she hadn't noticed (ya know, that red gingham was printed totally off grain!)😄...  I miss her! I also miss the little group I would get together with at the church on Tuesdays.

I finished a whole bunch of quilts before we moved, but I was so busy, I didn't have time to put them on the blog, so now that I'm missing all my quilty friends, I will gradually put them up here and pray for comments from kind strangers!

Reading Pillows

I made Reading Pillows for each of my grandchildren this past Christmas. The pillows have a pocket on the front for a book.  I got each of them a book that I thought they would love. I had fun searching out embroidery patterns online.

I couldn't find one for Harry Potter or Ghost Busters, so I found an embroidery pattern with the design and added my own words. They loved their pillows!

These were so awesome in fact, that several of my friends made them for their grandchildren too! Of course on the back of each one I put this: