Ella's Quilt

This week I decided to join Amy's 

One Thing One Week Challenge.

I wanted to make sure I finished Ella's baby quilt,

and this was a good way to insure I did it!

I love the colors on this quilt, very bright and girlie.

You can see how it started here.

I did very organic channel quilting.

It's about every half inch, I used the side of my walking foot 

as a guide.

I saw this fence at the beach the other day and knew it had to 

be one of my new photo venues!

Here is the back with her name.

Sewing on the binding in the comfort of AC.

Another beachy shot.

And I couldn't resist this photo of all the kayaks.

LOVE those colors.

So thanks so much to Amy for throwing down the gauntlet,

and getting me to finish this quilt!

Now it's all ready for baby Ella to use.

A Baby Quilt

I've spent the last couple days putting a baby quilt together

for Baby Ella.  She arrived on Father's Day,

what a nice present for her Dad!

I made the liner for her bassinet back in April.

Her Mom wanted pink and orange and yellow for the theme.

My kind of colors!

I was lucky enough to see this quilt from Cluck, Cluck, Sew 

before I got started and it inspired what I made here.

I did change a few things up, but it is very much like the

inspiration quilt in the design.

I wanted to put her name on the back too.

I decided to add the green to the mix, it really needed 

a cooler color to calm it down.

And I had the perfect backing in my stash!

Pink, Orange and Yellow stripes.

I love it when I don't have to buy a thing!

I even have the batting ready to go.

So tomorrow will be layering and quilting.

Lucky for me it's too hot to go out

and I have AC.

I don't really need an excuse, when I'm sewing,

the whole world knows to leave me alone!

Hope you are staying cool!