Crib Quilt Progress

Wow – I had no clue I hadn’t posted this! This was written on 12/27/08.

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I finished the top of the crib quilt yesterday, and pieced the backing together.

Pieced, ready for quilting

Now all I have to do is figure out what sort of quilting I want to do on it. I was considering just a basic cross-hatch, but I’d really like to do something a little more complex. For the border, I’ve come up with a simple pattern of “braided” wavy lines; but because of the pattern of squares and number of rows being irregular, I’m having difficulty with the body.

BTW, I had to figure out for myself (with huge amounts of help from Brian) how to do the half-rectangles. The website that I’d found was *WRONG*! Guess that’s what I get for believing what I read on the internets ;-} Fortunately, I had extra material that I could play around with. I’m going to write up the method I used (probably isn’t the only way, but it works without having to have any special rulers). The only thing is, because I used batiks, there was no right-side/wrong-side issue with the fabrics. I will have to experiment with some one-sided fabric to make sure I cover both types of fabric; and also the orientation aspect (which direction the angle goes).

So I’m off to go searching through my quilting books to see if I can decide on a quilting pattern for the body – if not, I may actually have to drag out a pencil and see if I can draw something I like (and believe me, drawing freehand is not one of my talents. . .).

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