I really need to ditch the numbering thing; it's not a very effective system. ANYWAY. I mailed off a new quilt last week! Our friends back in Texas just welcomed their first baby into their lives, Margaret June. Isn't that such a sweet name? She needed a sweet quilt to match.
I used nearly every pink print I had in my stash and paired it with the same linen blend I used on Tessa's quilt. The squares are 2" finished, and while there are ways to make sewing hundreds of tiny squares together easier, I didn't do any of them. (Only because I didn't think of them until it was too late.) So yeah. This quilt had many, many challenges in store for me, most of them my own fault. But. There are more corners that line up than there are mismatched corners, and I consider that a win.
It's backed and bound in a soft, cozy flannel, and I hand-quilted it in a pattern of interlocking squares. Mostly with plain white quilting thread, but I did a handful of the squares in various shades of pink perle cotton thread. So pretty! The final size is about 40x60. I'm not sure what I have against baby-sized quilts for baby-sized people, but I'm thinking I need to revisit that because I sure wouldn't mind making something smaller.
I didn't pay any attention to placement of the fabrics as I pieced it, so the layout is truly arbitrary, which kind of goes against my nature, but I really like the scrappy vibe it adds.
