This is a baby quilt for Lucas who was born earlier this month. Busy times at work meant that I started and finished this after he was born.
This is the first quilt where I have used just scraps from my fabric stash and bought nothing new in order to complete it. You may notice a similarity to another quilt, and that is because the majority of the quilt was made up of left over parts from my brother's quilt. Because of the patterned fabric I was only able to use half of the HST shapes and saved the others for a smaller project. I think I had to cut an extra 9 HSTs where I used plain blue fabrics to tie it all together. For my brother's quilt, I had originally sewn two border layers, but realised that it was just too big. So even the white squares here are from that former quilt. I tried a new quilting technique, big loops, which was fun but I don't think I'd want to do it for a bigger quilt! Bound in plain red fabric, which really brings it out I think.
Finished size roughly 1m by 1m. Now to wrap and pack it off to catch the post...
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