a baby quilt for Carter . . .

Another one marked off my list! This is for my sweet little nephew Carter. The fabric is from Riley Blake's All Star line (one of my favorite boy lines!), and the back is a soft flannel from the Shadowplay Flannels by Maywood . It's the same layout as Meagan's quilt, just alternating blocks with four patches, and free motion quilted in invisible thread.

I have been so impressed with the quality, prints, and colors in Riley Blake's fabrics lately. And especially LOVE that they make distinctive boy lines (check out Wheels and All Star 2 is coming out soon). They also have some beautiful girl lines and a bunch of their lines are available in flannels.

I'm linking this up to Sew & Tell Friday - go check it out for some sewing inspiration!

a little boy organizer . . .

So now that we've been blessed with a son, I have been on the lookout for cute boy fabrics. A thoughtful friend gave me some prints from a line called Traffic Jam and I've been admiring them for quite some time, trying to find the right project for them. I finally took the rotary cutter to them this week and created an organizer for Justin. For now I'll be using it for his cloth diapers, wipes, wetbag, and the zippered pocket is for his CJ's butter; but when he outgrows diapers, he can use it for organizing whatever a little boy might want to take with him. The organizer was largely inspired by this one I found on Etsy, I just tweaked the design to work as a diaper clutch. I've started to make a couple matching wetbags, and want to cover my wipes case with some fabric too - gotta get the most use out of the scraps, right?!
. . . linking this up to Sew and Tell Friday.

a baby quilt for Meagan . . .

Finally, a quilt finish! I've been wandering to my sewing room much more lately and am so pleased to have this marked off my list, especially since my niece is almost 8 months old already! The fabric is from Riley Blake's Bloom & Grow line, and the backing is a minkee with a heart design found at my local fabric store (it pulled out the shade of blue perfectly!). It's a simple quilt pattern, just alternating blocks with four patches; and it's free-motioned with invisible thread (and I broke 5 needles in the process! Note to self: quilt shop quality invisible thread is much better that generic fabric store brands!!).