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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Pink Baby Quilt
The current theme for our baby quilt group is pieced strips with a bit of applique. One of the members is appliquing cats, another hearts, but I chose circles. The strips are supposed to be vertical, but I sewed mine together in jelly roll race fashion without any advance planning and ended up with the horizontal orientation. The quilt also ended up too skinny, so I trimmed some off the bottom and added sashings at the sides.
I pulled pinks from my stash and cut them in 2 1/4" strips. Some started as yardage and their strips were the width of the fabric. Some were leftover pieces or fat quarters and their strips were shorter. The back is a combination of four fabrics, and the binding is pieced.
One nice part is that my pile of pink fabrics is now shorter since I didn't buy any fabrics for this quilt. I talked briefly earlier this year about using what I have in my stash, not really too serious about it, but maybe I should make it a goal. Not to only use fabrics I have, but to end up the year with less fabric than I started out with. I can do that.
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