Cate's Quilt

 Baby Cate has a new quilt, and this one is staying at Grandma Jayne's house. 

Last Saturday, our daughters, granddaughter and son-in-law were here for a day of Christmas celebrating. One of our gifts to Cate was the pink single Irish Chain quilt that I recently finished up.

Erin immediately spread it out on the floor for Cate to have some time to stretch. 

Here's a full picture of the quilt, from a few weeks ago when I was finishing off the binding.

It's the sweetest little quilt. Perfectly simple in its 9-patch design. Nothing showy in its composition - just two-color blocks placed on point with setting triangles of the darker color serving as a border. Here's a post about binding the quilt. Here's a post about making the quilt - clear back in August.

Baby Cate has two granny-made quilts at her house, and now one here at ours. Finished quilts. In various stages of completion and possibly more than a few incubating in my head are several more. She will definitely not go wanting for a quilt.

Now for a weather update - the snow started last night about 10pm.Windy and absolutely frigid this morning:  -8 degrees,  25 mph winds; feels like -35. Those were the numbers when I checked at around 8am. I didn't go out to measure, but it looks like we have around 4 inches of snow. 

I am grateful for a warm house with electricity and internet, a full fridge AND a sewing machine upstairs waiting on me!

Perfect quilting weather, don't you think?

Happy Quilting, Friends!

 

Binding a Quilt

The nice thing about quilting is that one can change her focus depending on her mood or her needs. If I'm in the mood for mindless piecing, I can do that; if I'm in the mood for long-arming, I can do that. Or, in my case this past week, I needed a hand-stitching project to take to our Frankfort Girls gathering on Friday morning. 

Yes, I know I have several hand-stitching projects already in the works, but I also wanted to take a show and tell - a finish, in other words. 

This little baby quilt met both needs. 

I bought the fabrics in May, stitched the quilt in August, and quilted it on Thursday. I took it with me on Friday morning to stitch down the binding. 

I absolutely fell in love with these two prints when I saw them at Mae-Lynne Makers while at our quilt retreat in May. Having a granddaughter on the way (at that time), I couldn't resist. It made up so fast, as you can imagine. Nothing is more satisfyingly fast than a stack of 9-patch blocks. 

I placed them on-point and used the dark pink to fill in as setting triangles to form a border. Easy-peasy!

I had enough of the lighter pink to use as the backing, and in no time the quilting was done, and I was stitching binding. It is now completed and waiting for the label to be affixed.

 

Now that Cate is here - 1 month old already! - she needs this quilt, right? Well, it will soon be on its way to the nursery.

I'm joining the talented stitchers at Kathy's Quilts and today's Slow Sunday Stitching party. 

Happy Quilting, Friends!