Kambelle's Quilt

My first quilt. Gifted to Kambelle's Grandfather this morning. He loves it and he's trying to figure out how he can keep it and not give it to her. Hopefully Kambelle's Mom will like it too.

This is a crazy nine-patch quilt. There is an excellent tutorial on AllSorts which I stumbled on accidentally and just knew this was the right design. Super super easy to do. Pretty quick too. I took her idea to do the little borders and boxes as well. I think this turned out super cute. Its about 60x45. So it will be really decent for when she's rolling around on the floor and in the meantime for just cuddling up with her.

Here is sort of a picture of the quilting. You can see what I did in the borders on this, but you can really see how it went on the back. I'm telling myself I was going for the "homemade" look. Since its my first and lets just say my stitching wasn't always straight.

I stitched around each border and corner box and then around the big squares as a whole and finally into each ditch on the diagonals crossing the square. Nice and snug. I wanted that contrast thread on this side and this was the most pleasing of the ideas I had for the actual quilting bit. It mostly survived its first washing. I had one spot pull apart, one spot that needed requilting, and one spot I didn't notice I hadn't quilted until I was inspecting it after the wash.

The next one is coming along too. I've about a fourth of the top finished and I'm pretty excited about it.