I finished two baby quilts! My WIP pile is shrinking so fast!
Minkee backing on the elephant and bicycle quilt. Not for a Florida baby maybe, but any other baby would love it!
you can find these for sale here; www.cybeleperry.etsy.com
January 29, 2012
January 8, 2012
Two baby quilts started
Christmas has me feeling a little broke, so I am working on some quilts to sell on etsy. Two tops done so far.
I always find baby quilts to be so refreshing to make after working on big quilts. This diamond quilt was the exception. What a beast to sew! I am glad I tried this smaller size before making this pattern in a larger size. That 60 degree angle changes everything somehow, the grain of the fabric or something. The diamonds warp and wiggle, what a pain!
This is basically the end of my blue and green in my stash. Going to have to make a few purple quilts next.
I love the pink and grey combo. It has been a long time since I have done a quilt with only 3 fabrics. But these elephants kind of called for it. I have a great binding picked out, so technically it will be 4 fabrics… Still a rarity for me.
I am also loving my new photo spot on the playhouse! Purple looks quite nice with this one 
December 11, 2011
Sock Monkey Quilt
My best girlfriend is getting a new nephew for Christmas. So, I made this one as fast as I could!
A stacked coin quilt with sock monkey fabric, to match the nursery.
I appliqued a few more from a scrap to make sure no one missed the monkey theme.
My favorite color combo is blue and yellow, I didn’t notice until it was pieced how much yellow I managed to sneak in. Hopefully auntie won’t mind…
Flannel on back with more sock monkeys.
November 13, 2011
Baby shower presents from the stash
A very sweet mama friend asked for gently used or upcycled things for her new baby. I dove into my stash and perked up a few burp cloths and a bib and made a scrappy lovey for this new baby. I love love love the scrabble fabric! It makes monogramming very hip and easy! I found it at equilter.
I also gave baby this quilt, which had been in my cupboard for just a reason like this and was just the colors I was using on everything else.
I love it when a stash comes together ! Not one trip to the store for this present!
February 2, 2010
Pink and Green Baby Quilt
For our baby!
I have spent a long time on this quilt, partly because my big belly makes sewing a little tougher, but partly because I wanted it to be awesome. I think it ended up pretty awesome. 
I used some scraps for the back, not really what I had imagined in the beginning, but I am pretty pleased with it. The minty green stripes are minkee, I think maybe I should have made the whole back minkee, but the pinwheel squares were too hard to resist.
January 10, 2010
pink and green peek
They tell me I only have 10 weeks to go until baby arrives. So I am trying to get a few creations finished in the next 6 weeks. I have tons of inspiration, but not much time. These are (some of) my favorite Christmas presents, they are now a fixture on my bedside table and have me dreaming of beautiful new creations;
I have 2 baby quilts planned, this one finally pulled together after a trip to Cloth and Bobbin last week. Some of the fabric was in my stash from the summer but together they look amazing! A peek;
July 15, 2009
Green- pink- brown for baby
In theory this quilt is for a baby that is due in September. However if it gets sold at the Farmers Market next Saturday I will have to make another one for that September baby. Mom requested green with a touch of pink and brown. Which is not exactly what this became. But who can really blame me? The Heather Ross VW van fabric found it’s way in and I couldn’t convince it to come back out.
And pink minkee? Well… it was in the off-cut bin with a good markdown, and I love a good markdown.
This is called a “card trick” square. They have always been very difficult for me. I have tried a couple different ways to make all the little points line up and quite honestly- this is the best I have ever done, and it is far from perfect. I seem to loose the outside points every time. I always revisit it after I give up in frustration but I have never been able to make them well.
July 13, 2009
Doesn’t this look familiar? Blue and Brown for Baby
I enjoyed a weekend with no real plans and was able to finish up 2 quilts that have been “marinating” for a while. This one is every single little scrap left over from the wedding quilt from 2 weeks ago. Along with some pieced together batting. It is almost a genuine scrap quilt but I did buy the blue minkee backing specially for it.
I am regretting not using a true binding, however not enough to rip it out and start over. One more quilt for the Farmers Market!
May 19, 2009
Red and Pink Scrap Quilt
Before my fan-tab-o-lus vacation I spent many an hour sewing like a demon to have lots of things for the Lansdowne Arts and Crafts Fair. Which was subsequently rained out, of course. The enrollment $25 seems to have been non-refundable which is kinda lame, but the plus side is my etsy store now has lots of good stuff in it and my new retail outlet; Birthmark is also well stocked for a while. I even managed to make a new quilt to show at the fair, which was so fast and easy it makes me want to whip a couple more out. I had been saving all these little scraps for a mega scrap quilt but the pink and red were just too appealing together…
the birds seem to be popular for baby dresses, hopefully the same holds true for quilts.
I am working on a blue and brown quilt for a wedding right now, but who knows if she reads the blog so no pictures until later…
April 27, 2009
Seedlings and Sewing
just some pictures from our works in progress this weekend…
Philadelphia is in the midst of a heat wave, record breaking 90 degree temps has brought summer before spring, so planting has been put on hold until it cools off, a strange way to think of spring planting…
And a WIP quilt, a variation on a coin stack quilt, whipped up with the precious scraps from my red-pink phase…
