The Wallflower Speaks

For various reasons, I have had a few baby quilts in a closet for the past few months. I am proud of them, even if they are pretty basic quilts. In the end, I think these are "learning" quilts because I made some pretty big mistakes on each.

The first quilt I worked on is a "froggy quilt". I fell in love with the pink and blue pastels with little frogs on them, and turned it into a log cabin baby size quilt.


I machine quilted the frogs myself, and unfortunately it shows. The quilt is kind of lumpy and bunchy and although the squares themselves turned out very exact, the machine quilting job I did was a disaster.










I didn't set my tension correctly, and it bunched quite badly in a few places. In the end, I don't think any kid will care. Everyone I have shown it to says they don't see the bunches. I think they are just being nice because it sure as heck seems obvious to me.






The other quilt was made from a free online pattern for no reason other than I found a fabric that was too cute to pass up. I only bought about a yard and half of this print, and when I returned I could not find it anymore.



These flannel dinosaurs are cute, but I'm not a fan of how the red and blue squares were done, honestly. This one is hand tied and was finished in a short amount of time.

I love picking children's fabrics for quilts, they have such fun stuff out there and it is easy to make something very unique. And honestly, I don't think you will find another quilt like either of these anywhere.