Friday, September 3, 2010

quilt for baby van

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I had a hard time tracking down this Neptune jellyroll...

I decided I was going to make a quilt for Van before I even knew he was a boy. I found some anchor patterned fabric on sale at one of my fav quilt shops- secretly hoping that Nan would be having a boy so I could use it.

As soon as the ultrasound came in- I went out and picked up a whole bunch of red, white and blue nautical themed fabric for the quilt. I was planning on making custom embroidery blocks of pirate ships.

After making the first one, I decided I hated it. So I scratched that idea and went with something else. I looked closer at the anchor fabric and found the name- Neptune. So I searched high and low for pieces of the collection, seeing as how it was out of print. I found a jelly roll, and that's it.



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Some of the borders before sewing together...



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And the finished quilt!



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I went with traditional tattoo style embroidered blocks, specialized for little Van.



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One pirate ship did make the cut...



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I had just enough of the jellyroll strips left to make the binding.



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And a sweet little label so he always knows just how much his auntie loves him!

1 comment:

  1. This is awesome! Great job! I especially love the way you fussy cut the Neptune waves for the pirate ship block, they look amazing!

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