I made this Liberated (emergency) Baby Quilt last week, after, as I told you in last post, my darling spouse mentioned that a quilt was needed in a week or two for a friend's soon to be born baby. I started it Wednesday night after dinner, worked on it a bit Thursday and Friday evenings and finished it on Saturday - for me a very fast turn around. The front is a rainbow of dancing liberated Shoo Fly blocks.
The back is designed to encourage tossing the quilt onto the floor/ground for baby to play and is made up of two wonky stars - my very favourite of all time blocks to make. I chose the front and back blocks because they have a great impact, and yet are very fast to piece. And I have to say both sides make me smile every time I look at them, the liberated or wonky piecing has such a great modern feel to it.
My tutorial for making this quilt is featured over at Rhonda at Quilter in the Gap's Finish-A-Long tutorial series. I hope you enjoy it and all the other tutorials she is featuring this week.
Best,
Leanne
32 comments:
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Lucky baby! (And I hope your husband knows how lucky he is!!!)
Wonderful!
I love it Leanne! I always love bright colors for babies. :o) And the back is so great. I'll have to check out the tutorial, thanks!!
That was fast...I love both sides. I love the wonky piecing.
Double sided quilt in 4 days - brilliant. Love that double star.
Oh I love it!!
Oooh! Quick and beautiful work!
Brilliant! Gorgeous baby quilt - love those wonky stars too! Jxo
Its gorgeous!
Love it, and its given me an idea for my guild challenge!
How super of you! I love baby quilts, especially reversible ones!
Such a cute quilt! The tutorial was great- by the way. :)
Love how this turned out!
oh this is so darling, Leanne! And what a great tutorial! Thanks for sharing.
LOVE the tutorial over at Quilter In The Gap, thanks for being so clear and putting out a great tutorial! It looks easy to do and yours looks fantastic!
Fabulous!
Don't you just love it that quilters can have emergencies and make something fantastic!
What a beautiful quilt! Nice job getting it finished so quickly. I'm very impressed!
WOW!! That is good turn around!! Beautiful quilt!!!
What a gorgeous quilt, Leanne. Love the liberated style, so pretty and modern.
So beautiful!! LOVE the back!!
2 for 1 quilt! Fun back!
Love this quilt. It doesn't look like an emergency at all.
Oooh, I love both sides, and great job considering the minimal amount of notice!
So adorable!
oh man - love those wonky shoo fly blocks! so adorable and they look like they're dancing. :)
I love this quilt!!!! And I spied your mosaic - wow, I missed a lot in March. What a month you had. Gorgeous work, indeed.
Lovely baby quilt and originally yours as always.
3 days???Seriously? It is beautiful and double sided, I think it is fabulous
I'd love to have the skills and SPEED that you have to get these quilts done! The backing reminded me of you--a huge pieced block, and oh yes, those wonky stars are the best!
I like that you made the colors so that they felt as if they could throw that baby quilt on the ground--a great idea.
Elizabeth E.
These blocks look great! I found your blog from your tutorial post on Quilter in the Gap. I'm your newest follower. I featured this tutorial on my blog with a linkback to get the tutorial: http://koolbeenz-blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/tutorial-featured-quilters-quilter-in.html
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Wonderful babyquilt!
I'm making one like yours and linked to this post on my blog:-)
Great tutorial!
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