Past Baby Quilts

I was going through some of the past quilts I made as gifts for our friends's little ones and these were some of my favorite ones.  I made each one based on the sex, what the theme was and tthe pattern I picked out of what I thought was fun.  I know that all the little ones like them because they would all smile and drag them around the house when they became old enough. =)  I hope all the parents liked them as well.  One time I couldn't tell and the parent didn't even say thank you.  Guess some people just don't know how to be polite or how to exspress themselves.  Anyway I hope you like what you see!! =)

This one I made for my husbands friend's girlfriend.  Baby Lucy was due in a week and I had thought to make a quilt just big enough to use in the car seat and something that could later be hung on her wall as decoration cause you know how us girls like decor! lol  When Lucy was too old to use the quilt I gave her mother, Kristal, some quilt hangers that matched.  Hope she keeps it for when Lucy has little ones of her own...

I made this quilt for the son of another friend of my husbands, Mark.  He was turning 4 or 5, I can't remember but I did write the date and his age on the quilt label.  Mark's favorite movie was Cars and he loved ANYTHING that had to do with the movie.  His father is also a dirtbiker and they spend a lot of time around the sprint car race track, so I went with a checkerd flag theme with Cars prints.  The back was a collage of Dirtbikers doing stunts.  Perfect size for the couch and as one of my co-workers said "it's the PERFECT blanket for a teenage guy to keep in his car to snuggle under".  Marks mother told me later that he was sleeping under it every night.=:)

I made this one for the same friend.  Her little girl, Suzanna, was turning 1 so I made her a big lap quilt that she can use for years to come.  I thought to go with a simple girly theme as her mother likes pink and little girl things.  You can't quite see it in this photo, but the light blocks are also 9 patch squares, just with light pink and cream.  I thought the contrast from dark colors and light was eye popping and I just LOVED the Amish stars.  If you look close you'll see a modified "Around the World" pattern, from the center block out.  Hope Suzanna likes it as she gets older. =)

One of my coworkers had a little girl, Reagan, who was turning 1.  I was sneeky and had a friend/fellow co-worker give me the extra fabric that they used for the curtains in her room, it was the orange print.  Karla liked the new contemporay prints and when she was pregnant she went with bold colors because they didn't know what they were having.  Surprises are fun and this one blew Karla away because she had no idea that I was making her little girl a quilt.  When I brought it into work to give it to her, Karla started bawling and couldn't stop hugging me thank you and saying that she hadn't found any blanket that she liked for Reagan.  I'm told Reagan drags it everywhere around the house. =)

I made this quilt for a co-workers sister, who was having a little boy.  She said her brother-in-law was a homofob and absolutly had to stay with blue and yellow for the colors.  She didn't know what theme her sister had picked out, so we decieded to go with dinasors.  I found this adorable baby dinasor print (the white print) and went "perfect!!".  This was just a simple block quilt that measured 40in by 50in.  Not huge, but hey it was for a baby.  =)