Keziah's Baby Quilt is finished!

On Jul 29, 8:41*pm, Jennifer in Ottawa wrote:
The quilt is quite large by newborn standards but the bordering had to
happen this way! *The quilt finished at 50"x64" with the kaleidoscope
blocks measuring 7" each, the green border strip finished at 3-3/4"
and the pinwheels were 4" finished. *I paper-pieced Keziah's name for
the top border and extended the "K" and "h" blocks to make up the
difference in the border measurement. *I didn't want to repeat the
name in the bottom border so I paper pieced "2010" instead and
extended the outer blocks to fill in the gaps of the pinwheel
blocks.
This was the first time that I worked with wool batting - hot work
during the latest heatwave! *The cats loved the wool though and there
were quite a few soggy bits during the quilting.
I had intended to use a circular quilting path for the kaleidoscopes
but changed my mind after 'finding' the backing of diamonds in my
stash. *Pictures of the quilt and also my QI's doing their jobs can be
found in the "Finished is Good" album athttp://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl
Keziah's quilt will be shipped to Belgium via Florida when my
neighbours return from their vacation. *jennellh

What a cute quilt! And you are right about that border :-).

I recently read about making "baby" quilts not so babyish, so that
they could be used longer. Was that here?

Bev in Tx

I just went back and viewed more pictures. You did a marvelous job on
the quilting!
Bev in TX

Howdy!

Splendid.

R/Sandy


On 7/30/10 6:43 AM, in article ,
"Roberta" Roberta@Home wrote:

She'll love that quilt forever and be able to use it for a long time!
You did a wonderful job quilting the border, and I really love the PP
name and date.
Roberta in D

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:41:04 -0700 (PDT), Jennifer in Ottawa
wrote:

The quilt is quite large by newborn standards but the bordering had to
happen this way! The quilt finished at 50"x64" with the kaleidoscope
blocks measuring 7" each, the green border strip finished at 3-3/4"
and the pinwheels were 4" finished. I paper-pieced Keziah's name for
the top border and extended the "K" and "h" blocks to make up the
difference in the border measurement. I didn't want to repeat the
name in the bottom border so I paper pieced "2010" instead and
extended the outer blocks to fill in the gaps of the pinwheel
blocks.
This was the first time that I worked with wool batting - hot work
during the latest heatwave! The cats loved the wool though and there
were quite a few soggy bits during the quilting.
I had intended to use a circular quilting path for the kaleidoscopes
but changed my mind after 'finding' the backing of diamonds in my
stash. Pictures of the quilt and also my QI's doing their jobs can be
found in the "Finished is Good" album at
http://community.webshots.com/user/barnyowl
Keziah's quilt will be shipped to Belgium via Florida when my
neighbours return from their vacation. jennellh