Pink Skulls Baby Quilt

I have a large and wonderful family, including about 50 cousins.  One of my cousins, actually the daughter of a cousin, contacted me about making a quilt for her daughter who was having a baby girl.  The expectant mother is a mortician and her mother wanted a mostly pink quilt with skulls.  My first thought was sugar skulls, but no, she wanted just regular skulls.

So I found some pink skull fabric and pulled some great low-volume whites from my stash and did a disappearing four-patch design.

The last two photos, showing the front and back, are from the baby's' nursery.  The baby arrived before the quilt was delivered.

May your bobbins always be full,

Plus Sugar Skull Quilt is complete

I really love how this Plus Quilt turned out.

A close-up of the quilting and some of the fun fabric.

 I used most of the leftover fabric on the quilt back.  I made this with my daughter Sharon in mind.  She loves the Sugar Skull motif.  I'm going to show it off this week at our TVMQG meeting on Thursday.  And on Friday I'm leaving for a 10-day baseball tour.  I guess she'll be getting this quilt sometime in July.

The quilt measures 60x60"

The quilting is Bubbles.

My LAQ is Janiel Miller.

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Plus Skull Quilt Top and Back are ready for the LAQ

My constant companion, Ben!

I thought I was finished with this quilt top until I took this photo.  To me, the error was glaring, but I decided to "sleep on it" to see how I felt in the morning.  Although my daughter most likely wouldn't have cared, I decided to fix my mistake.  Below is the corrected quilt top!

I had enough leftovers to patch together 10 squares of 5-inch strips, by adding the Ikea number fabric, I was able to use them all.  I think it makes an interesting quilt back.

May your bobbins always be full,

Plus Skull Quilt

A quilt update on the Skull Quilt.  I've been cutting pieces and yesterday I laid them out on the garage floor.

The dogs were there to "help"!

After taking some photos, these are from my IG, I moved the solids to the edges, and thought that was a good improvement.  I pinned all the rows together, and killed my back!  They're ready for stitching but first I'm going for a massage.  I have a groupon, and I'm using it!

May your bobbins always be full,

A new Plus Quilt

One of my daughters likes the Sugar Skull motif.  I've been collected some of those fabrics and some "normal" skull fabric, so I could make her a quilt.  One of my challenges was a quilt design that would show off the skulls.

I settled on a Plus Quilt design as the best bet.  When I pulled the fabric, I added some low volume but I thought it needed more, so I added four solids, shown in the photo below.

I think this will make a good balance.  Now, to the cutting mat!

May your bobbins always be full,