Flowers for Lucy Grace

The next project on my list was making a baby quilt for a Niece who was having her second daughter.

This was the quilt that I made for the first daughter…..

Since she and her sister will be sharing the same room, I wanted to do something in the same vein.

First step was to pick some fabrics that were different than the first quilt…..but not TOO different!!

I was thinking of peach/pink and green again and this was the first set of fabrics that I pulled…..

Those didn’t all appeal to me so I kept pulling fabrics and, before I knew it, my table looked like this……

OKAY…..that is WAY TOO many fabrics.

Let’s start winnowing them down!!

After a lot of shifting fabrics from one pile to the other, I ended up with this stack….

I then cut one or two strips from each fabric, cutting across the full width of the fabric and varying the sizes from 2-inches to 4.5-inches.

I also selected my “focus strip and cut that one 10-inches.

Now came the fun part of laying the fabrics out and deciding on my strata…..

For this quilt, I decided to put the green colors together in pairs and found that this decision made the selections easier.

In previous quilts made with this idea, I found it easy to get the quilt too top heavy so I was more careful with this set.

But what was I going to make as the accent row?

They had mentioned a “Boho” look, so I started thinking about flowers from the 70’s. You know the ones that I mean…..simple flowers with big petals and circle centers.

I spent a bit of time with my Wonder Under and, voila…..there were flowers…..

So the top is finished……

Come back tomorrow and we have a look at the quilting!!

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