Perry Moffitt » baby quilt

Baby Paintbox Quilt

perrymoffitt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:27:04 +0000

I started this while in the last days of pregnancy. Baby turned 3 months old this past Tuesday. So, this is what 20 minutes of sewing a day will get you;

I was stumped on what the binding should be for a while but ran across this lovely polka dot satin at the Joann’s and made half a yard into just the right amount of binding.

I added a stripe on the back in the dead center. The minkee came up just a smidge short and this is how I made up the 3 inches I needed to match the front.

In full disclosure I should tell you I did not use any batting in this quilt. Strange, right? Well, it was very intentional. I noticed that we had not been using the baby quilts I had for miss d. but instead using the store bought minkee blankets, and I realized the reason was the quilts I had made, even with thin cotton batting, were just too bulky to use. So, this is just fabric and minkee and it feels like just the right weight, better for traveling from room to room and snuggling with at naptime.

Pink and Green Baby Quilt

perrymoffitt — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:06:33 +0000

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.

Green- pink- brown for baby

perrymoffitt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:35:48 +0000

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.

Doesn’t this look familiar? Blue and Brown for Baby

perrymoffitt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:33:44 +0000

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!

Pink and Red Baby Quilt

perrymoffitt — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:55:57 +0000

It was sold before it was even finished! I would have thought twice about selling it if I knew how much I would love it, the pink and red, the lattice pattern, the dress with the same fabric, all of it makes my heart sing.

White Baby Quilt

perrymoffitt — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:19:32 +0000

After a few annoying days of thinking my sewing machine was broken, I changed the needle and vowed not to use the zig zag stich for a while. That will solve it! I managed to crank out another bento box quilt, I really do love this pattern, as evidenced by the 3 other quilts I made with it!

I had every chance in the world to take a lot of great pictures of this quilt outside this weekend, but instead I took some mediocre pictures in natural sunlight and then some more mediocre pictures inside on the bed, which is why this quilt looks like it is a trapezoid. Which it isn’t, although I fear it is a little wonky- The satin binding and I had some words and a few curses before we came to the end, where I swore I would never use it again. Which I have sworn before…

and some more minkee on back! I am forever grateful I figured out to put “heat -n-bond lite” between the batting and minkee. It makes quilting minkee so much easier. Now, if anyone has any tricks to make satin binding work better, I am all ears! Now for sale in my etsy shop, the first link on the right… Donated to a silent auction for Theatre Exile here in Philly. It sold- but they never told me how much it made them

White Baby Quilt, WIP

perrymoffitt — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:42:41 +0000

I was left with a small stack of white and cream leftovers after the wedding quilt a few weeks ago. I had some advice early on that I would have great success if I made white quilts for babies, I think I might have rolled my eyes. But I decided to use up the leftovers and throw in this lovely ducky fabric (that seems to match nothing else in the universe) and see what happens. The sad truth is I have baby quilts in 2 different stores and etsy right now, and none of them selling. So what harm would one more be, right?

UPDATED *** finished quilt here***

Scrappy Baby Quilt

perrymoffitt — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:09:25 +0000

This was a special request quilt, which also happened to be a stash buster. The mom requested a quilt that has lots of different images, to have fun identifying things with baby.

As a result there is a little of everything in here. Ladybugs, cupcakes, rabbits, birds etc.

I used some batik for the backing that I got on the $3 a yard sale cart at On Board Fabrics and some butterfly fabric that had been cut in squares for a long-abandoned project and all in all, a great stash buster!

70′s Zig Zag Baby Quilt

perrymoffitt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:40:08 +0000

My hubby says this color combination makes him think of the 70′s and when he says it, he says it with a wrinkled nose. None the less; I rather like it and am really pleased to have used my kelly green minke so easily. It just looked SO green when it came home from the store I had doubts that I would ever find a home for it.

Zig Zag Quilt, a peek

perrymoffitt — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:46:54 +0000

Sewing took a brief sabbatical this last week while I lay on the living room floor trying to alleviate my very specific lower left back pain. I blame this pain on my recent 30th birthday, becoming 30- not the birthday in particular. I managed to make some rice crispy treats and plant a few daffodil bulbs but that was the extent of my weekend. Feeling much better last night, I started a baby quilt with the ever popular zig zag pattern. I got most of these fabrics at the Maine Quilt show this summer and love how they all mesh. Paul thinks it is vintage 70′s and proclaimed his dislike of all things aqua. Luckly it is not for him…