Plus Baby Quilt

Well, what else am I working on besides the Texas Quilt Along?  My sister and I have committed to making each of our cousins a baby quilt when they have their first baby.  We recently found out that our cousin's wife is pregnant and due in the fall so it was time to get to work.

I really wanted to make a "Plus" style quilt since they have been everywhere on the internet and they look pretty easy to make.  It took a while to choose the fabric, but we finally decided on primary colors and a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" theme since we don't know if they are having a girl or boy.

Here is the quilt all laid out on my design wall:

My sister lives in Connecticut and I live in Texas, so I set up the laptop facing the design wall with my sister on Skype in order for her to help me come up with a pleasing arrangement of colors for the quilt.  It was lots of fun to have her help in the design process!

Next step: I am going to sew this quilt top together and then mail it to her so that she can take care of the quilting.

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Welcome to my blog!  My name is Katie and I am a 30-ish mechanical engineer with a side interest in all things crafty (sewing, quilting, building, scrapbooking, etc!). 

I am starting up this blog so in order to better participate in a quilt-along- I am so excited to join in the "Deep in the Heart of Texas Quilt Along"!  I recently moved and need some kind of wall hanging in my sewing room, so I am going to create the quilt at half-scale (so it will be 33" square instead of 66" square) and hang it on my wall.

My inspiration fabric is this  "Moda Wildflowers IV" fabric, it is one of my favorite fabrics ever and perfect for this Texas themed quilt.

found here

I made a quilt in the past with this fabric for my in-laws, I am going to use scraps from that as well as some new fabrics for this project.  That quilt was a Lone Star quilt (another appropriate use of the Texas wildflowers fabric).

 

front of Lone Star quilt

back of Lone Star quilt

Here is the fabric that I plan on using, I may switch out the blue, I have a fabric order coming in the mail later this week so I will decide for sure then!