After I finish a big project, a small one is a must. A friend was expecting a baby, so a baby quilt it was. I actually finished it the day before she was born–whew!
This is a disappearing 9-patch design. It’s super easy, but looks like it’s not. My favorite type of design! I got out all my pink fabrics and cut 5-inch squares. Then I cut 5-inch gray squares and white squares. I sewed them all together as 9-patches with the grays in the center, then cut each 9-patch in half in both directions to get four smaller blocks. The next step is to rotate each of those new blocks and sew them together again. Looks pretty cool!
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Quilting it was fast and easy. I’ve been working on my free-motion quilting, and saw this as a perfect opportunity to practice. I found a simple, pretty quilting design using hearts that worked absolutely perfectly for this quilt. It was easy, fast, and so much fun! Here’s a close-up of the quilting.