Newton's Lullaby Dream Crib Quilt

Auditioning the Fabric:

Last weekend we were in Calgary visiting  our daughter and son-in-law. My daughter and I spent a few enjoyable hours at My Sewing Room a fabric store in SW Calgary.  What a huge place and what a great selection of fabrics. And thank you so much Sydney (salesperson) for being so patient and helpful! :)

We were trying to decide which of the fabrics to use in which parts of the baby quilt. Most of this fabric is from the Newton's Lullaby dreams collection by Leslie Ann Clark for Clothworks. The pale yellow stars and the blue stars fabric, however is Hey Diddle Diddle fabric by Sue Lipkim (for Clothworks).

Decisions, decisions! Should we go with turquoise sashing or the pale yellow with stars?

 Since my daughter was in Calgary and I was 250 km away, we sent emails back and forth until we finally got what we think is the perfect fit:

We went with the patchwork fabric and the pale yellow stars for the main body of the quilt top.  The strips are cut 5 inches wide. ( 4 1/2 inches once sewn  together.) The sashing we decided on was the turquoise Robert Kaufman 'Fusion".  Sashing strips were cut 1 inch so they are 1/2 wide once they're sewn in.  I used the blue stars (Hey Diddle Diddle fabric) as the inner border. Those strips were cut 2 1/2 inches wide.

This part of the quilt is 31 1/4 " wide and 38 1/2 inches long. Now to add the outer border

The outer border was never in question. We're going with the large Newton Lullaby Dreams in yellow with the small Newton in green for the back. They will be cut 6 inches wide to incorporate as much of the Newton pictures on the fabric as possible. That will make the finished quilt a little bigger than crib size but not by much. 

 More to come.... :)