Starry boats & More Raggy Babies :)

Starry Sailboats

I just finished quilting my Starry Sailboats baby quilt. The 5 sailboat blocks are based on the Barnegat Bay blocks except that I made the bottom 3  1/2 inch blue fish strip (the 'water') go across the full width of the quilt to give it continuity. 

This little number is for a new baby called Lawson who lives in Saskatchewan, new baby boy for a relative of ours. This is quilt #4 for them! :)

I ditch quilted around the sailboats and the sails, and then echo quilted a half inch out from that.  I free motion quilted all around the stars on the starry blocks and also around the fish on the ocean strips on the top bottom and middle of the quilt.  The back is a soft yellow stars fabric the same as the edging. (I made a mock edging, bringing the back fabric around to the front, folding it in half and then stitching it on with the machine.)

Now working on making and sewing on the labels for my last 3 baby quilts  so that I can send them away to the recipients. I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of them!

On to Raggy Quilts: A few weeks ago I made a small raggy baby quilt using 6 inch squares of thick green leftover fleece as backing and a variety of green flannel for the fronts ( no batting). I traced hearts in the centre of the blocks and then stitched around them.
It is quite small only approx. 25 inches square but nice to use with a baby chair or car seat. 

Green bugs and frogs

Back of the green bugs and frogs small raggy baby quilt

After finishing that  one, I started another raggy baby quilt. This one has 6 1/2 inch flannel blocks of farm animals, zoo animals, solid yellow, solid green, blue on a blue squares and green butterfly squares.  It has no batting inside the 2 layers of flannel, which is what my daughter requested.  This raggy quilt is for our new grand baby whose arrival we are anticipating any day now!!!  ( I have plans for a pink raggy baby quilt if it turns out the baby is a girl.)
Update: Jan. 3/14  Our new grand baby was a boy- Tanner Felix, 9 lb. 12 oz.   ;D

Arranging the blocks for the latest raggy baby quilt

I brought the 3 baby quilts, along with the green raggy one and both of the knitted afghans that I had made recently to show my daughter last weekend. Her twins (22 months old) loved the quilts and had to put them all on the floor and lay on them. Then they proceeded to cover themselves up with the 2 afghans. 
Our little granddaughter, Claire pointed to one of the quilts on the floor wanting Grandma to lay down, too, so I joined them in their play. :) 
Our little grandson, Hayden then brought me the green raggy quilt and covered me up with it. I love joining those two little sweethearts in their impromptu games! Nice to know that all my work has their seal of approval! 

 The animal raggy quilt (above) is all put together now;  I  just need to get out my good scissors and clip all the edges.  Photo soon!

Happy quilting!