A few months ago my sister asked me to make this baby quilt for a friend. I was really happy to work on this project, because I love improvisational piecing. I made the quilt top out of 9 blocks, each a little different.
For the back, I pieced a wider strip and a narrower strip of green print fabrics. I really love fabrics that have a print on them but read as one color. I find I’m drawn to more and more of these “basics,” but I tend to use them as the main focus of the quilt instead of as an accent. Lately I’ve been starting each quilt by thinking about what color or colors I want to include and pull fabrics from my stash. There’s definitely a sorting process that happens there, and not all original choices make it into the quilt! I like to think about the range of color represented (even within a single color– for this quilt I stuck to the yellowy-green to grass green end of the spectrum of greens), and I try to pick things with different value so that there is some contrast in the quilt and your eye has a place to rest between darker prints. I love this part of the process, and I often find I pair together fabrics with light and dark values without even realizing it.
I’m so happy this quilt made its way to its new home! I love making baby quilts, they are so much more manageable than full size quilts and are so fun to play around with design!
Gorgeous.
And I always think you take the best photos.
What an awesome baby quilt. I don’t often use green because it’s not really “me” but I love these tones. So bright and happy!
Love that green quilt! I find myself drawn to the more ‘single toned’ fabrics, too – prints, plains, tone-on-tone patterns. I love them.
crinkly goodness.
So pretty! I always gravitate to bles and greens, so that last picture really gets me š Ineed to try some improv piecing! You make it looks so fabulous!
so so pretty natalie! i love them! that green is so bright and happy!
I totally agree about the manageable size of baby quilts making them fun projects. I love your improv colour series that’s happening here.
Gorgeous, Natalie! What a lucky baby to get that gift.
Another gorgeous quilt made by you!! That is one lucky baby!
oh, how fun!! and beautiful, too!!
Love it. Such a fun quilt.
Yes, yes! I love this quilt!