Covered in Threadmalaka’s adventure in sewing

Most people don’t really get the whole quilting thing, and I can’t explain it.  I’m so glad that I have my neighbor and friend, Aimee, to share all my sewing stories (sagas!) with, since most people don’t understand it a bit.

Baby quilts are so very satisfying.  They are small, so before you get tired of cutting, that part is done.  Before you get tired of piecing, that part is done.  It’s time to quilt before you know it, and that is scary but exhilirating.

I made my friend Elia, who I haven’t seen in so many years, a quilt for her new baby boy, Rex.   I wanted to find fabric with airplanes in pastels so bad, but after scouring the fabric shops and online, the only really cute airplane fabric I could find was part of Michael Miller’s Tot Town collection.

Since I free motioned for the first time on my sister’s graduation quilt,  I decided to take it one step further and free-motion all over this one.  I did it, and it was fun.  I realized I need to practice free-motion meandering a bit, it got sloppy in places.

Also, I used basting spray and it was easy and awesome! I still had to pin the corners but that’s a lot easier than pinning the whole thing.  Hooray!

This is the first time I’ve used a whole piece of patterned fabric as the backing of a quilt, and I like the way it turned out, especially for a little boy.

I finished this quilt in 4 days, just like the last one.  This one was much easier, though.  Another reason to love small quilts, they can be finished in a week (provided you have a husband who will make all your meals and run all your errands while you do nothing but sew sew sew!)

Next: baby quilt for my sister’s best friend, almost finished!