Baby Quilt Top -- It's done!

I shared the blocks I made for two group baby quilts my sewing group was making.  This is quilt top #2, made from Aunt Grace fabrics.  It's for a boy.  We think it's pretty special.

  It's on its way to be quilted as I type this.

Baby Blocks

My awesome sewing group began a tradition a few years ago -- we make baby quilts for all our new grandchildren.  Of course, it should be many years before any come into my family, but you never know.  We have used a log cabin hearts pattern in the past.  But one daughter is having her second baby so we needed a new idea.  We designed our own pattern with everyone's input and ideas and one quilter used EQ to make our pattern.  We used alphabet blocks for the border and machine embroidered designs for the inside blocks
(6 /12).  Each of us worked on the paper pieced alphabet blocks.  We used pastel Aunt Grace fabrics for one quilt and primary colors for the other.  Here's pictures of the blocks I made.  The quilts are at the longarm quilter now so I can't show a finished picture yet.

New Baby, New Quilt

I had to throw a baby boy quilt together in a hurry and fell back to one of my favorites for this, Yellow Brick Road.  I bought six fun fat quarters, border, backing and binding at one of my favorite local quilt shops.  This was the finished project finished with some simple diagonal quilting.

The fabrics are very sweet with some animals, frogs and ABC's.  I know there is a very sweet baby boy that will we wrapped in warmth and love by it.