Old Fashioned Pastel Patchwork Baby Quilt

... Traditional patchwork quilt ... ...Old-fashioned sweetness ... Unrolling a Little Stars jelly roll from Connecting Threads revealed a few pastels mixed in with mostly dark, primitive colors which did not coordinate with the light fabrics at all.  So I pulled out the pastel strips, 14 in all since I had two jelly rolls, and looked for a pattern that used that few strips in the quilt books on my shelf.  

Quilts Made with Love had a pattern that would work with so few jelly roll strips.  I began making the quilt and realized I had enough strips leftover to fill some of the white space in the pattern, and thus the strip blocks were made in place of the mostly white blocks with a few colored squares.

I really don't care much for the colors myself, but I do love the old-fashioned look of yesteryear with the simple pattern and simple fabrics.  My daughter, Millie, told me she thought it was "beautiful!" which encouraged me to press through and finish it.  She repeated this to me several times and said it again when she saw it finished.  Thank you, sweetheart! Most quilts have a definite repeat to the block layout so they look finished on all edges ... this isn't one of those quilts.  The layout forced me to step out of my narrow-minded thinking, because to me, this quilt looks unfinished on the top and right sides.  Perhaps the continuous yellow binding {as opposed to scrappy binding} finishes it off nicely and gives it continuity. True to my fabric-buying moratorium, this quilt was made entirely from my stash, backing and all.  The backing is leftover from a custom lap-sized 30s Barn Raising I made earlier this year. Quilt Stats:

• Pattern:  A variation of Bitsy Baby from Quilts Made With Love
• Size:  40" square
• Fabric:  Little Stars by Connecting Threads
• Batting:  100% cotton
• Backing:  Connecting Threads Ice Cream stripe
• Binding:  Double fold Moda yellow and white stripe, attached by machine with mitered corners
• Quilting:  Allover small meandering in white thread on Mrs.Bernina, my old 830 which was my grandmother's
• Value:  Old-fashioned charm!

This quilt is listed for sale in my Etsy shop, BusyHandsQuilts.

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