Baby Baby

My friend is having a baby.

MY FRIEND IS HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!!

Ok, J... if by any chance you are reading this, and I haven't given you your present yet, you need to click OFF this blog, and whatever you do, don't scroll down. Absolutely NO scrolling down. You hear?

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I mean it, no peeking now....

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Baby quilt!!!!

Yup. Actually the jelly roll race quilt was meant to be for baby but I was still at the 'oh no it's wrong I hate it' stage and I had the second half of the shibori jelly roll so I thought why not make a straight up rainbow quilt. So I did.

Speaking of this particular jelly roll, a warning. When buying from Amazon, or eBay or wherever, be careful that you aren't ordering from overseas. I didn't realise I was doing so until I received a docket through my door requesting I present myself to pay taxes and 'holding fees', meaning a £35 jelly roll ended up costing me £50. £35 for 40 or so strips of fabric is obscene anyway, and in America where quilting is much more popular precuts are a lot less as are lengths of fabric, but that's the price we are stuck with. Paying taxes on top of that... well it's enough to make you spit. Don't!!!

I don't care though. It's pretty, and it was bought for J's baby so y'know.

This is just over half the panel, and I didn't use all the leftover strips. I took out the browns, whites and the peach and used the rest. I cut the other half off for use elsewhere, but forgot to trim the other side properly, hence a rather large and conspicuous bulge. Facepalm!

This was the first quilt I quilted, in straight lines either side of each seam, with quite a firm wadding so and then re-backed with a soft fleece so it can be used as a play/sleep mat as well as a quilt- quilts aren't recommended for unsupervised sleep anyway as they can get very warm and tiny babies can't kick them off. 12 months plus, I think. Then I've bound it in a cream tie dye I had in my other fabric. I would have had a nice dark contrast, ie black, but Mother want all unnecessary on me and said 'Ooooh no, Beth, you can't have black for a BABY' so cream it was... and I guess it looks OK.  suspect black will be heavily used elsewhere!

We don't know whether J's baby will be pink or blue flavour yet, so HURRY UP OCTOBER so I can meet you please! Hope Mama likes the quilt.