The quilt is made from a selection of pre cut 2.5'' strips I bought a while ago. I added a few more strips cut from my own stash and sorted them from low volume to dark colours.
I found this tutorial from 'Cluck Cluck Sew' which uses 2'' strips, my quilt is a bit longer using the 2.5'' strips.
The tutorial is called strip & flip, it's super simple and as Allison from Cluck Cluck Sew says 'Fast, fun, and CUTE!' You basically cut a narrow strip out of the quilt top, sew white strips to the left and right, flip it around and sew it back together again.
And then it looks like this:
The fabric strips I used are mostly from the fabric line 'Home School' by LB Krueger for Windham Fabrics, I also used the same fabric for the back. Part of the fabric line was this beautiful ABC panel, I just needed to include it!
I took the quilt to a local primary school playground and found lots of great locations to take lovely shots of this little beauty!
The ABC fabric had two panels and I cut one little heart out of the second one and used it as label.
That was just the perfect place for it!
I quilted it with swirls and double swirls, obviously that needs a bit more practise... But I think this suits the quilt and breaks up the straight lines of the fabric strips.
And for the first time I used stripy binding!
This is just perfect for a little baby girl's quilt.
So there it is, nicely wrapped up. Lara, Mumy and Daddy were very happy, and that made me happy too!
