Quilt for Baby Maeve

Finished quilt for Maeve Margaret

      We had another baby girl join the family.  My husband's nephew and his wife had their second baby in the middle of October.  I had several baby boy quilts ready to go but only this one for a girl.  It worked out just great as when her big sister was born, I had given her a quilt with these same fun giraffes.  Check it out here.   This is also the same pattern I used for my roses quilt.  It looks so different. 

Block detail

Borders with flannel binding

     I had bought this as a kit on-line so I didn't have the option of adding more of the polka dot fabric to the three yards to make a matching binding.  I used the same flannel as I used for the backing.  As the flannel is a little thicker than quilting cotton, there was more uptake when turning over the binding.  I should have used a slightly smaller seam allowance when sewing the binding to the front of the quilt so it wouldn't have been as hard to stitch it down by hand on the back.

Label 1

Label 2

     I used the flannel also for the labels, it makes them blend it nicely.  Thanks to my embroidery software, it is easy to design the labels.

Quilting detail

     And check out how cute this quilting design is!  A giraffe!  So fun to be able to have the quilting relate to the fabric.