June 2010 Challenge: Baby Quilts! (Page 1)

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It's always a challenge to set 26 alphabet blocks in a balanced layout, but I think this one works. Color with the sophisticated decorating colors that are popular this season.

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

The "Yellow Brick Road" block is easy and fast piecing and provides a great way to play with lots of fabrics. When set into a quilt, the block can be rotated with the Symmetry tool to provide lots of possibilities!

The Moda Funky Monkey fabrics are just too cute!

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

Baby Blocks. I plan to used fabric with suitable motif for a baby in the center patch of each star.

Baby Quilts -I scanned the car fabric and turned the photo into fabric. (Very easy to do in EQ7) The appliqued cars were traced in patchdraw.

I drew a block for the border that would be easy to foundation/paper piece. For easy letter placement, I used the wreath feature to get a ring of circles and put this block on layer one. Then I set a hodge-podge of letter fonts over the circles on layer two. Last, I zapped the poor nameless wreath block and gave the quilt a solid color center.

I used solid colors to keep the project file size small but if I made this in real life, I would use a plethora of fabric prints for the applique and for the flying geese in the border, too.

Sunnyside, Washington

These are just blocks straight from the EQ library ... tweaked a bit. I moved the applique to the left of the block and then set it into the Layout -- Block Turned Quilt - 19 (Four X). I also drew a better corner block for the Triple 3-D Zig Zag auto-border (well, I think it's better anyhow).

I used several EQ features to get my color palette. First I colored all the bears different tints or tones of a blue and saved the quilt. Then I used the shift hue feature of the Random Recolor tool several times and saved each quilt. Then I popped one block from four colorations into a quilt and gave them all black eyes and noses.

I used all solid colors except for the border red ... which reads as a solid anyway.

Sunnyside, Washington

Victoria, British Columbia
Canada

I made this quilt 12 years ago, pre EQ, with a nod to Mary Ellen Hopkins as to technique.

blocks from Jinny Beyer's "The Quilter's Album of Patchwork Patterns"

Victoria, British Columbia
Canada

4 patch and Butterfly appliques make up this quilt in bright pastel shades.

Ontario Canada

It's always hard to find a baby quilt suitable for a boy. This is one that will grow with him. Large blocks with a novetly car fabric and applique cars.

Ontario Canada

Needham, MA

I designed the flower appliques using the wreathmaker function, then used the same design as a quilting template for the alternate blocks.

Blue Grass, Iowa

Designed this quilt for a baby whose parents had decorated the nursery in owls. When I was doing this I couldn't find anhy owl quilt pattenrs. Within a week of completing the qujlt 2 separate magazines came out with baby quilts with owls on them. Oh well this gave me a good excuse to work on drawing applique patterns.

Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

I started playing with this design in EQ5 a few years ago. With a grandson on the way in 2009, I resurrected it in EQ6, played with the 'Text' tool, but didn't put the final polish to the file until now. The quilt was designed for Robert Turgeon, born October 2, 2009. The idea is from Tracey Brookshire but is sized to be either a cuddle quilt or a wall hanging. The real quilt has been presented to Robert. Thank you to Gordon Cooper for pointing out what a nice font Ravie is for applique.

I started out with block 1018.4 from BlockBase in an on point setting. Because I did not like the half blocks that I ended up with on the sides of the quilt, I drew a different block that would achieve the same look, but without half blocks on the side.

I used one of the Autoblock borders with vines and pasted heart motifs over them on layer 2.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

I started out with block 1018.4 from BlockBase in an on point setting. Because I did not like the half blocks that I ended up with on the sides of the quilt, I drew a different block that would achieve the same look, but without half blocks on the side.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sheboygan, Wi.

Sheboygan, Wi.

I used a shaded 9 patch block and used the symmetry tool and got some pinwheels

Germany

I think little boys loves cars and building bricks. So I combined these two items.

This is a similar layout to a quilt I made and I thought it might work out for a baby quilt. The blocks could be applique, embroidery or even pieced blocks.

Bracebridge, ON Canada

Guildford, England

Babies find bright colours stimulating - I hope this won't keep him or her awake at night!

Guildford, England

This was a block I found on the Quilter's Cache website some time ago and drafted into EQ. It seems perfect for a little boy. I hope Andrea likes it too!

Washington State
Skagit Valley

I used blocks from the library; I made a similar patch for one of my niece with a yellow/red/black sashong and borders.
Happy Summer to all!

Switzerland

A simple design to enjoy using multiple fabrics and colors. All blocks are from the EQ library. The stretched blocks and sashing are configured for actual sewing. This baby quilt measures 40 x 44. Club EQ challenge for June, 2010

Huntington, IN

June 2010 ClubEQ Challenge

All blocks are from the EQ library. The quilt measures 40 x 40.

Huntington, IN

Newaygo, Michigan, USA

Killeen, TX

This is a slight modification of a quilt I did a year ago for our first great-grandaughter.

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