For my cousin's baby I cut some charm squares from my stash and whipped up a Charm Pack Quilt. You can find the details for this quilt here on an earlier post. This is a great stash buster and given that I've not been doing much fabric shopping it was great to be able to use three different white on white prints from my stash for all the various borders because I didn't have a big enough piece in just a single print or solid. I do love being able to raid my stash and still coming up with something pretty.
Believe it or not, I still haven't finished this one yet. It's currently taken up residence on the back of a dining chair waiting for me to finish hand-stitching the last section of the binding. So close! I'll pop up a pic when I finally do get it over the line.
The other baby quilt is for someone who has made a BIG difference in Miss CT's little life. Susan, CT's habilitation worker from Guide Dogs, is expecting (may even have had) her own first little bundle of joy. I think everybody needs a Susan in their lives. She is such a ray of sunshine and just what any family adapting to life with their child's visual impairment needs. We have been so blessed to have her support for four years now, so I really wanted to make a special quilt as a way of thanking her at least a little for all she has done.
Given that Susan is a complete ray of sunshine, what better quilt to make her new arrival than Lori Holt's 'You Are My Sunshine' quilt? This is a pattern in Lori's Spelling Bee quilt and I'm delighted to have had a very lovely excuse to stitch it. You can see it got some wavy line quilting treatment. I'm not sure who was smiling more when I handed it over, me or Susan!!
So you see, it's not all cross-stitching around these parts. It just looks that way ;-)
You are my sunshine is such a special quilt, it made me smile so much because that was the song that played on my daughter's cot mobile 24 years ago. I never hear this song without thinking about her as a baby. x
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